Art and Fear Virilio Paul
Art and Fear Virilio Paul Paul Virilio is one of contemporary Continental thought's most original and provocative critical voices. In his provocative and challenging vision, art and science vie with…
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Art and Fear Virilio Paul
Paul Virilio is one of contemporary Continental thought's most original and provocative critical voices. In his provocative and challenging vision, art and science vie with each other for the destruction of the human form as we know it. His vision of the impact of modern technology on the contemporary global condition is powerful and disturbing, ranging over art, science, politics and warfare.In Art and Fear, Paul Virilio traces the twin development of art and science over the twentieth century.
He traces the connections between the way early twentieth century avant-garde artists twisted and tortured the human form before making it vanish in abstraction, and the blasting to bits of men who were no more than cannon fodder i nthe trenches of the Great War; and between the German Expressionists' hate-filled portraits of the damned, and the 'medical' experiments of the Nazi