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• Moscow Diary Redux

  
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  In an earlier post I quoted a review of Adam Kossoffs documentary Moscow Diary , based on Walter Benjamins book of the same name. The film has a great premise--tracing Walter Benjamins travels through Moscow just before the gloom of Stalinism set in, when Soviet culture was still "experimental," as Benjamin ...
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• The Last Surrealist

  
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  Whatever happened to Surrealism? Does anyone create Surrealist artworks anymore? The heyday of European Surrealism--Surrealism with a capital S--was brief and a long time ago. If you want some arbitrary dates, how about 1929, when Max Ernst conjured up  The Masters Bedroom , to 1931, when Alberto Giacometti, ...
  6 days ago

• Flaneurs, Turtles and the Confetti of History

  
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  From Robert Fulford’s ‘ Benjamin, the Flaneur and the Confetti of History’ in Queen’s Quarterly, Winter, 2006: “In Baudelaire we meet the Flaneur as a supercilious dandy, alienated from the crowd through which he walks, an aristocrat in his own eyes, if not in anyone else’s. He dresses well, though he’s ...
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• Photography at the Bauhaus

  
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  Masters on the roof of the Bauhaus building, c.1926, From left to right: Josef Albers, Hinnerk Scheper, Georg Muche, László Moholy-Nagy, Herbert Bayer, Joost Schmidt, Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Lyonel Feininger, Gunta Stölzl and Oskar Schlemmer. Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin/Centre ...
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• Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience

  
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  “If sleep is the apogee of physical relaxation, boredom is the apogee of mental relaxation. Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away. His nesting places—the activities that are intimately associated with boredom—are already extinct in the cities and ...
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• Fun Friday: The NATO Summit Edition

  
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  Ive been thinking of ways to introduce more Benjaminian ways of representing events. For this weeks edition of Fun Friday I want to track the NATO summit from a particular point in downtown Chicago. This will be a constellation  of different fragments--some experienced first hand, some linked from other online ...
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• yesterday I had conviction

  
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  “Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.” ~ Walter Benjamin, Illuminations: Essays and ReflectionsI feel like Ive been on a constant quest to find those books I like.  I know Im not alone - maybe ...
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• Ten Outstanding Books That Combine Walking and Thinking

  
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  Inspired by Verso Books’ excellent Guide to Political Walking , below is my guide to books that effortlessly combine walking, with musing about culture, literature, politics and geography, a form of exercise that I endorse. Wanderlust – Rebecca Solnit A Time of Gifts -  Patrick Leigh Fermor Wildwood ...
  2 weeks ago

• Drawing in the moment: a "happening" at Artspace

  
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  Artspace 50 Orange St, New Haven, (203) 772-2709 Saturday "happening": Colleen Coleman: Ode to Walter Benjamin May 5, 2012. This past Saturday, as part of the opening reception for several shows, Artspace presented the first in a series of Saturday evening "happenings" slated for this month. Saturdays "happening" ...
  3 weeks ago

• Quote: Writing on three levels

  
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  “Work on a good piece of writing proceeds on three levels: a musical one, where it is composed; an architectural one, where it is constructed; and finally, a textile one, where it is woven.” (Walter Benjamin, German-Jewish Marxist literary critic, philosopher, and author of One Way Street And Other Writings) Filed ...
  4 weeks ago

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