Weimar and Nazi eyes
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14800784 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Janet Ward (National University of Luján, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 163-171 |
| Publication date | 2010-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | History and Technology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0734-1512 • E-ISSN: 1477-2620 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/07341511003750097 |
| OpenAlex | W2087269245 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 10 |
Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1. Latour and Hermant, Paris ville invisible, 48. 2. Fischer, ‘Gestaltung der Reklame im Stadtbild,’ 119. 3. Banham, ‘Edison, Missing Pioneer,’ 48. See also Neumann, Architecture of the Night; and Sharpe, New York Nocturne. 4. Peukert, Weimar Republic. 5. Einstein’s lecture, ‘Das physikalische Raum‐ und Aetherproblem,’ is included in a conference report by K.W., ‘Die zweite Weltkraftkonferenz, Berlin 1930,’ 667. 6. Köhler, ‘Das Osram‐Museum,’ 90–3. 7. Hamel, ‘“Berlin im Licht”,’ 588. 8. Klein, ‘Elektrizität beschwingt das Leben’; and Anon., ‘Die zunehmende Stromversorgung Berlins’: during the Berlin Light Week, newspaper articles like these focused their attention on the electric transformations underway in the German capital. 9. Riezler, ‘Organisierte Lichtreklame,’ 238. 10. See Ward, Weimar Surfaces, 95–101; and Ross, ‘Visions of Prosperity,’ 58–60. 11. Lindqvist, A History of Bombing, 20. See also Ciarlo, Advertising Empire. 12. See the analysis in Herf, Reactionary Modernism, of the rise of a cult of Technik among engineers of the Weimar bourgeoisie, as a reaction against capitalism and Jews (152–88), fermenting as an obsession with national character and the politics of self‐embodiment. As Herf states, the trend began with such texts as Ernst Kapp’s Grundlinien einer Philosophie der Technik (1877), in which the theory of physiological ‘organ projection’ into machines was posited as an inner logic of technology which would eventually replace the human (Herf, 157). Hardensett’s Der kapitalistische und der technische Mensch (1932 Hardensett, Heinrich. 1932. Der kapitalistische und der technische Mensch, Munich: R. Oldenbourg. [Crossref] , [Google Scholar]) was an influential example, in which he developed his theory of ‘der technisch‐schöpferische Mensch.’ See also Schröter (‘Philosophie der Technik’) on the (NSDAP‐inspired) ‘Ordnung’ of technological creativity. 13. Freud, Gesammelte Schriften, vol. 12, Das Unbehagen in der Kultur, 59. 14. Serres, ‘It Was Before the (World‐) Exhibition,’ 65. 15. Rabinbach, The Human Motor, depicts how the freedom inherent in the perpetuum mobile concept was quickly supplanted in the industrial sphere of the nineteenth century by that of applied work (Arbeitskraft), as advocated by Hermann von Helmholtz (48–61). 16. Benjamin, Gesammelte Schriften, vol. 5, Das Passagen‐Werk, chap. 1, p. 174. 17. Ward, Weimar Surfaces, 116–33. 18. See, for example, Freud’s diagrams of ‘der psychische Apparat’ in chap. 7 of Die Traumdeutung. 19. See Biro, The Dada Cyborg. Karl Marx included technological autonomy, even demonic animation, in his definition of man’s slave‐like alienation under the masters of capitalism: he referred to centrally organized production machinery as a ‘mechanical monster’ (Marx, Capital, 413, 416), but Marx was not anti‐technology per se, blaming only the capitalist‐master as the real animus in the alienation‐effect of technology experienced by the workers (462–3). 20. Foucault, Discipline and Punish, 137. See also Neufeld, ‘Weimar Culture.’ 21. The religious merging of modern mass culture with a heroics of the male body was initiated by Marinetti, whose ‘multiplied man’ substituted human love affairs with working for and as the machine‐as‐motor: ‘... we must prepare for the imminent and inevitable identification of man and motor ... we are aspiring to the creation of an inhuman type’ (Marinetti, ‘Multiplied Man,’ 90). 22. Jünger edited a collection of essays and photos, a text strewn with images of dead soldiers (Jünger, Das Antlitz des Weltkrieges). Jünger also contributed essays to two further photo books, Jünger, Der gefährliche Augenblick, with its various pictures and texts on the theme of catastrophe and danger, whether machinic or natural; and Jünger, Die veränderte Welt 1918–1932, the most technics‐oriented of the three, and the most obvious compendium to the philosophy of his glorification of the applied, working male body in Jünger, Sämtliche Werke, vol. 8.2, Der Arbeiter (1932). 23. Musil, Gesammelte Werke, vol. 8, p. 1067. 24. Jünger, Sämtliche Werke, vol. 9 and vol. 7. 25. Musil, Gesammelte Werke, vol. 7, p. 522; Jünger, Sämtliche Werke, vol. 8, pp. 181, 186. As cultural theorist Bullock states: ‘The ... sovereignty [of technologized vision] ... resembles the camera, but not so much in the passivity of its eye, which is intrinsic to a mere mechanism, as in the active function of holding equally steady before a shattering world by overcoming the vulnerability that separates the human subject from a machine’ (Bullock, The Violent Eye, 108). 26. Musil, Gesammelte Werke, vol. 7. 27. Jünger, Sämtliche Werke, vol. 8, pp. 182, 187; Musil, Gesammelte Werke, vol. 7, pp. 522 and 532. For a discussion of Musil’s theory of vision, see Huyssen, ‘The Disturbance of Vision,’ 42–6
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