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• Benjamin: I take back the chronopathos

  
  The Art Part — Authority: 112
  Thats what I get for trusting the Web. The photograph of Walter Benjamin in the Bibliothèque Nationale that I blogged about on November 22 was taken in 1937, not 1932, and Susan Sontag describes it and its context in the title essay of her Under the Sign of Saturn . And of course the general weakness of my ...
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• Walter Benjamin

  
  @ltaCITIES | PQ: The People Quotient — Authority: 131
  Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom. Walter Benjamin ... Walter Benjamin and his younger siblings Georg (1895–1942) and Dora (1901–1946) were born and raised in a wealthy Jewish household in Berlin. ... http://google.twi.bz/dn | 224 | A2G | http://google.twi.bz/hn ...
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• Photography: setting as tragic intimation

  
  The Art Part — Authority: 112
  Gisèle Freunds photograph of Walter Benjamin at work seems to be a study in the physical context of mind. Crammed into a corner of his image, Benjamin appears to have been, for the instant that Freunds shutter remained open, a functional part of a library; that is, an institution which exists to detect the airy ...
  2 weeks ago

• Does History Matter?

  
  Hammermarks — Authority: 125
  Wood, Elements #8 ©2009 Wendy Edsall-Kerwin How important is the history of a piece to your enjoyment of it?  How important is the cultural environment surrounding an artwork—the when and where of its creation? I was at a meeting of the Creative House of Lancaster last night and we were participating in a ...
  2 weeks ago

• time without nerves, or – unfound particles, anorganic metabolism, unpeopled parks: an exchange of letters, pt. 3

  
  square white world — Authority: 129
  - Balthus, La Victime, 1939-1946No. That’s not it. That’s not what I meant to say at all. I meant to say that despite the commercial interests circumscribing online interaction in Web 2.0, at the level of socalled social networking, and to a certain extent because of it, this way of being online, in a group [...]
  2 weeks ago

• The World Is a Shop of Images and Signs

  
  One-Way Street — Authority: 118
  In my last post I touched upon the historical decline in experience, a major concern of Walter Benjamin. His concept of experience is very complex, but basically Benjamin argues that in modern times weve lost the ability to experience ordinary life as meaningful, as an activity connected to tradition. Instead, ...
  3 weeks ago

• No Large Contexts

  
  golempoem — Authority: 92
  From Williamsburg Bridge (Hopper 1928) The true method of making things present is to represent them in our space (not to represent ourselves in their space). (The collector does just this, and so does the anecdote.) Thus represented, the things allow no mediating construction from out of ‘large contexts.’ ...
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• Baudelaire and the Decline of Experience

  
  One-Way Street — Authority: 118
  The second foundational figure of literary Modernism, along with Flaubert , was Charles Baudelaire. Both French writers were fascinated by urban experience. Flaubert incorporated it into his narrative form, while Baudelaire made urban experience the subject of his poetic practice. Baudelaire was a practicing ...
  3 weeks ago

• Flaubert: In the World, Out of Time

  
  One-Way Street — Authority: 118
  Sorry about the infrequent postings lately. Ive started a new job this week and things have been pretty hectic. The last time we talked we were discussing the flâneur as a literary figure. The flâneur embodies a mobile point of view. He is the opposite of the distracted viewer. His devotion to seeing is so ...
  4 weeks ago

• What is Philosophy, Benjamin?

  
  (mass)think! — Authority: 100
  Walter Benjamin begins The Origin of German Tragic Drama with an “epistemo-critical prologue” in which, before he presents his idea of the baroque, he articulates his conception of philosophy, the activity by which he represents ideas and conceptualizes phenomena (such as the baroque).[1] Benjamin does this by ...
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• The Flâneur in Bleak House

  
  One-Way Street — Authority: 118
  Walter Benjamin constructed the figure of the flâneur from the writings of his friend Franz Hessel, as well as Baudelaire, Poe, Balzac, Dickens and Marx in his writings on commodity fetishism. The flâneur is a historical type, as we saw in my previous post , but he is also a mode of experience, a literary motif, ...
  4 weeks ago

• A Turtle on a Leash

  
  One-Way Street — Authority: 118
  If “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” is the best known by-product of Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project , the best known figure to emerge from his study of nineteenth-century Paris was the flâneur. The term is now used to describe someone adrift in the city, a detached observers strolling ...
  5 weeks ago

• A House of Dreams

  
  One-Way Street — Authority: 118
  The poet Charles Baudelaire, writing in the introduction to his translation of Edgar Allan Poe’s Philosophy of Furniture (1852), asks, “Who among us, in his idle hours, has not taken a delicious pleasure in constructing for himself a model apartment, a dream house, a house of dreams?” We dream of ideal houses ...
  6 weeks ago

• Walter Benjamins Library Card

  
  A Piece of Monologue: The Online Journal of Rhys Tranter — Authority: 132
  Above: Walter Benjamin’s library card, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, 1940. (Image via pieto the media ecologist .) See also: pieto the media ecologist : Georges Batailles identity card
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