Ernst Junger and the Transformed World

Abstract

In modern industrial societies, no matter what their political orientation, it is possible to observe a shift beginning in the early 1920s from a form of selfdescription based on the written word to a new type of self-representation based on the photographic and cinematic image. This general, paradigmatic transition and its repercussions were attentively observed, described, and analyzed in the Weimar period by many scholars, artists, writers, and journalists. Perhaps more important is the fact that while the most lucid analyses of the nascent mass media were found on the Weimar left, and while the programmatic use of the photographic book in the Weimar years has usually been identified since with a leftist political position, it was the conservative and reactionary right that was actually the first to make effective use of these new forms.

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