{"id":18737,"date":"2023-05-05T22:21:32","date_gmt":"2023-05-05T22:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/the-fascination-for-possibilities-offered-by-technology-uses-of-propaganda-aestheticized-through-art-in-the-context-of-fascism\/"},"modified":"2023-05-05T22:21:32","modified_gmt":"2023-05-05T22:21:32","slug":"the-fascination-for-possibilities-offered-by-technology-uses-of-propaganda-aestheticized-through-art-in-the-context-of-fascism","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/the-fascination-for-possibilities-offered-by-technology-uses-of-propaganda-aestheticized-through-art-in-the-context-of-fascism\/","title":{"rendered":"The fascination for possibilities offered by technology; uses of propaganda aestheticized through art in the context of fascism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; cursor: auto;\">Referring to Benjamin&#8217;s &#8220;The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,&#8221; fascism was able to recuperate technology to use it for propaganda because of the fascination for an &#8220;augmented&#8221; humanity, speed, strength, etc. aestheticized through art, but talking to the human dream of becoming &#8220;super-humans&#8221;. More globally, this essay should be about&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><span style=\"cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; cursor: auto;\">perspectives embracing the possibility offered by science to &#8220;improve&#8221; and &#8220;augment&#8221; humanity and to show how, and why, at a particular point of European history, this perspective aligned with fascist ideology.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; cursor: auto;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; cursor: auto;\">Please reference and quote the attached texts\/sources (Benjamin especially).&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: var(--color-1); font-size: 14.666667px; font-variant-caps: inherit;\">Feel free to search for any other sources as well. Here&#8217;s one I found might be of use:&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"color: var(--color-1); font-size: 14.666667px; font-variant-caps: inherit;\">https:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2022\/07\/walter-benjamin-explains-how-fascism-uses-mass-media-to-turn-politics-into-spectacle-1935.html<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Referring to Benjamin&#8217;s &#8220;The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,&#8221; fascism was able to recuperate technology to use it for propaganda because of the fascination for an &#8220;augmented&#8221; humanity, speed, strength, etc. aestheticized through art, but talking to the human dream of becoming &#8220;super-humans&#8221;. More globally, this essay should be about&nbsp;perspectives embracing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[702],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/18737"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/18737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=18737"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=18737"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=18737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}