Art as Far as the Eye Can See puts art back where it matters -- at the center of politics. Art used to be an engagement between artist and materials but it has now become technologized. Its materials have become light rather than matter. In the 21st Century the new battleground is art as light versus art as matter.
Virilio argues that this change reflects how speed and politics - the defining characteristics of the 20th Century - have been transformed in the 21st Century to speed and mass culture. Politics has been replaced with mass culture...and the defining characteristic...
Art as Far as the Eye Can See puts art back where it matters -- at the center of politics. Art used to be an engagement between artist and m...
How would it be if what we take for human advance were simply a technological progress which literally leaves us out of its equations? What if Progress is not humanity striking out bravely towards the future, but an ultimately destructive force which has caught us up and overtaken us? Such a belief forms the core of Virilio's vision.
How would it be if what we take for human advance were simply a technological progress which literally leaves us out of its equations? What if Progres...
