The Destructive Character by Irina K

The Destructive Character

COLOFON: ArtEZ Hoogschool van Kunsten Typografie, 2A 2011 Docent: Remco van Bladel Ontwerp: Irina Kopytina Walter Benjamin ‘The Destructive Character’ Vertaald door: Ineke van der Burg en Mark Wildschut Uit: Maar een storm waait uit het paradijs. Filosofische essays over taal en geschiedenis. Nijmegen: SUN, 1999, 7-9 Dick Raaijmakers ‘ The Destructive Character’ (2003) Geredigeerd door: Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei

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The Destructive Character

Published on Mar 30, 2012

Irina K

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The Destructive Character is a treatise on the role of destruction in the arts, and its title is borrowed from the essay written by Walter Benjamin. Although their aims and ideas about the destructive character are widely divergent — in a letter to a friend Raaijmakers even admits that he might have ‘misinterpreted’ Benjamin — the context from which they decided to write their respective text show considerable overlap. Just like Benjamin, Raaijmakers completed his analysis of destruction in art under the pressure of social and political conditions following the 9/11 attacks, which are, in our times, aggravated by an economic crisis of either real or fantasmatic — in any case considerable — proportions.