...The distance provided by gods-eye views from the chaos of everyday life, Mussolini argued, was critical to taking a novel perspective on the human condition. For him, aviation was the ultimate symbol of modernity, leadership, technological progress, optimism, and citizenship- all the essential qualities of a future Italian state... His employment of aerial views has been described as part of the logic of high modernism and its aim to free humankind from history, tradition, superstition, and myth-making... Haffner, J. Historicizing the View from Below: Aerial Photography and the Emergence of a Social Conception of Space, 2010
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