Towards an Ethical Technique: Reframing Architecture’s “Critical Call Through Hannah Arendt

In his 1934 essay “The Author as Producer,” Walter Benjamin posited technique as themeans by which art, as a mode of production, could come into a “correct relation”with politics according to Marxist critique, and obtain an “organizing function” totransform the social conditions of production, rather than reproduce them.1 Throughnew techniques, the work of art could reveal the nature of reality as production, andinduce others to become the producers of their own lives.2

Volume Editors
Robert Corser & Sharon Haar

ISBN
978-1-944214-03-6