Monday, August 12, 2013

Architecture and Communication

One architectural product that is plainly a 'victory over gravity' is one that Nietzsche just as plainly does not have in mind in #11 of the 'Expeditions' section of Twilight of the Idols.  That product is a bridge, which, as presupposing the existence of two external relata, can hardly be characterized as that which "reposes in itself".  Now, if there is any aspect of human experience that a 'bridge' preeminently symbolizes, it is Communication, with respect to which Self-Satisfaction and Dishonestly are destructive forces.  Thus, this piece of Architecture also illustrates an answer to the challenge that Nietzsche poses earlier in his career--Truth has distinctive value as contributing to a victory over gravity, though not has he conceives it in #11.

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