Tuesday, August 6, 2013

Architecture, Inner, Outer

Any building falsifies Nietzche's assertion, from #15 of Human, All Too Human, that there is "no inner and outer in the world".  Similarly, while some Architecture, e. g. a churche, may, as he asserts, in #11 of the 'Expeditions' section of Twilight of the Idols, also symbolize hierarchical relations, the distinction in dimensionality that all buildings concretely effect is Inner from Outer.  So, if Architecture represents a "victory", it is fundamentally not over "gravity", but over some parts of Nature, e. g. rain, large animals, etc.  Likewise, if it symbolizes the human Will to Power in any respect, it is primarily the Artifactuality of the latter, via which the human species separates itself from the rest of Nature.

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