Fascism, Aviation and Mythical ModernityFlying and the pilot were significant metaphors of fascism's mythical modernity. Fernando Esposito traces the changing meanings of these highly charged symbols from the air show in Brescia, to the sky above the trenches of the First World War to the violent ideological clashes of the interwar period. |
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Fractured Order Summary | 268 |
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Aby Warburg achieved aerial Aeropainting air force aircraft airplane appeared Arbeiter aviation aviator-hero Balbo battle became become Berlin Boelcke bourgeois Cambridge combat concept context cult cultural death Deutsche deutschen Deutschland discourse Emilio Gentile enemy Ernst Jünger Ersten Weltkrieg eternal experience Fascist Flieger fliers flight flying Frankfurt/Main front future Futurist Gabriele D’Annunzio German Geschichte Göttingen guerra hero hero-narratives heroic human Ibid idea ideology individual Italian Italian Fascism Italo Balbo Italy Italy’s Jahrhundert Krieg La grande guerra liberal literature Luftstreitkräfte machine Mafarka man’s Manfred Manfred von Richthofen Manifesto Marinetti mass Max Weber meaning military mobilization modernity Munich Mussolini myth narrative nation Nazi Nietzsche one’s palingenetic paratexts past political popular published reality Regia Aeronautica Reich religion Revolution Richthofen Roger Griffin sacralization sacred social society soldiers spirit symbol temporal tion trenches tropes Ullstein victory Volk Volksgemeinschaft Warburg warfare Weimar Republic wings worker York