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| | Illuminations: Bronner |
 | | Walter Benjamin, "Aussicht ins Kinderbuch," in Angelus Novus, pg. | | | Nevertheless, Benjamin claimed that the more compelling the "truth content" the more intimately is it bound up with the "subject matter" of the work. | | | As for Marxism, Benjamin's interest was awakened after Scholem left for Palestine in 1923. |
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http://www.uta.edu/huma/illuminations/bron3.htm
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| | Walter Benjamin -- Philosophy Books and Online Resources |
| | This motto beginning Walter Benjamin's Berlin Childhood Around the Turn of the Century and appearing in a slightly altered form in Berliner Chronik has its origins in Benjamin's experiments with hashish, as Gershom Scholem and the editors of Benjamin's Gesammelte Schriften have noted. | | | Paper read at the Walter Benjamin Congress 1997 under the title "From Rausch to Rebellion." by Scott J. Thompson. | | | The "golden leading strings" of childhood and the attempt to recapture their magic are interlaced throughout Benjamin's writings and experimental notes on hashish, opium and mescaline. |
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http://www.erraticimpact.com/~20thcentury/html/benjamin.htm
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| | Walter Benjamin was a member of the Frankfurt School. | | | Among Benjamin's colleagues were Max Horkheimer, who directed the Frankfurt School after 1930, Theodor Adorno, Erich Fromm, Leo Lowenthal, and Herbert Marcuse. | | | Eagleton credits Benjamin with anticipating much of poststructuralism. |
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http://www.english.vt.edu/~amjones/eagleton/benjamin.htm
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| | WALTER BENJAMIN AND MAX HORKHEIMER |
| | He thus made a decision on an issue, which was so difficult for Benjamin to resolve despite the encouragement the latter received from his close friend Scholem: in favor of the theological-philosophical project and against the political revolutionary project. | | | Following Benjamin, the negativity of his utopianism is constituted from two elements, which contradict Marcuse's project. | | | Horkheimer had difficulty accepting Benjamin's negative utopianism, which was diametrically opposed to his own positive utopianism. |
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http://construct.haifa.ac.il/~ilangz/Utopia4.html
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| | Benjamin, the televisual and the "fascistic subject" |
| | This assault on time is presented by Benjamin in terms of the "spirit of sacrifice" of the proletariat. | | | The pertinence of the College of Sociology, whose meetings in Paris Benjamin attended briefly in the late 1930s, to the question of the mimetic in Benjamin's writings appears to have been generally neglected. | | | So Foster reads in Lacan and Benjamin an implicit critique of the fascism of the '30s that must be renewed in response to the televisual spectacle of the Gulf War. |
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http://www.latrobe.edu.au/screeningthepast/firstrelease/fir998/AMfr4e.htm
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| | Amazon.com: Benjamin Franklin : An American Life: Books: Walter Isaacson |
| | Benjamin Franklin An American Life helps me to understand who we are as Americans, as well as who we aren't. | | | Benjamin Franklin, writes journalist and biographer Walter Isaacson, was that rare Founding Father who would sooner wink at a passer-by than sit still for a formal portrait. | | | The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Dover Thrift Editions) by Benjamin Franklin |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0684807610?v=glance
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| | Centro Studi Walter Benjamin |
| | Walter Bonaventura, Prolegomeni a uno studio del concetto di apparenza in Walter Benjamin | | | Theodor W. Adorno, Introduzione agli Scritti di Walter Benjamin | | | Franco Rella, Walter Benjamin: Passaggi metropolitani con figure umane |
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http://www.ominiverdi.com/walterbenjamin
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| | John Mage, "An Homage to Walter Benjamin: Arcades, Barricades and Public Sex" |
| | On the Port Bou register of deaths, it is recorded that Walter Benjamin died at 10 PM on September 26, 1940. | | | September 27, 2005, the 65th anniversary of Walter Benjamin's death as he fled the fascists. | | | This is material that Benjamin conceivably could have obtained. |
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http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/mage270905.html
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| | Photography practises what Benjamin calls "a salutary estrangement between man and his surroundings". | | | Unlike Paul Claudel or Aragon, or Breton, all of whom joined the Communist party at some point, Benjamin kept himself clear of Party affiliation, even though he had written to Scholem in 1924 of generating "a `politics' from within myself". | | | The force with which this happens in Benjamin separates his concerns from Surrealism. |
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http://courses.nus.edu.sg/course/ellpatke/Benjamin/benjamin_surrealism.htm
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| | Walter Benjamin |
| | The appeal of this desire to "blast open the continuum of history," as Benjamin wrote in 1940, seems clear enough in a modern world in which narratives of society's inevitable progress have long since exhausted themselves. | | | How Benjamin the mystical philosopher becomes Benjamin the historical materialist | | | The vogue for Benjamin in academic and artistic circles is based almost entirely on his later work, which he produced as a Marxist (albeit a rather idiosyncratic one). |
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http://www.bostonphoenix.com/alt1/archive/books/reviews/02-97/BENJAMIN.html
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| | Harvard University Press/Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Volume 4, 1938-1940 |
| | Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Volume 2, part 2, 1931-1934 | | | Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Volume 2, part 1, 1927-1930 | | | Harvard University Press/Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Volume 4, 1938-1940 |
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http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/JENWA4.html
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| | Amazon.co.uk: Illuminations: Books |
| | Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt (Introduction), Harry Zohn (Translator) | | | But the best reason to read Benjamin is his prose. | | | Walter Benjamin was an extremely influencial, wonderfully insightful writer and philosopher. |
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0712665757
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| | Walter Benjamin Discussion |
| | Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Volume 2, part 1, 1927-1930 (Walter Benjamin) | | | A professor told me Benjamin had some "Marxist tendencies". | | | If you can find this book (in a college or university library) Walter Benjamin, Critical Constellations, by |
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http://www.gnooks.com/discussion/walter+benjamin.html
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| | Mehlman, Jeffrey: Walter Benjamin for Children |
| | In light of the legendary difficulty of Walter Benjamin's | | | considered appropriate, Benjamin talked to the children of | | | Mehlman, Jeffrey Walter Benjamin for Children: An Essay on his Radio Years. |
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http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/12231.ctl
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| | Walter Benjamin and the Corpus of Autobiography - Gerhard Richter |
| | Rather than explaining his sense of the political, Benjamin enacts it in the movement of his language. | | | Walter Benjamin and the Corpus of Autobiography - Gerhard Richter | | | Although Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) is considered one of the most significant writers and theorists in twentieth-century Western culture, his enigmatic sense of the political has eluded definition. |
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http://wsupress.wayne.edu/literature/kritik/richterwb.htm
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| | Internationale Walter Benjamin Gesellschaft |
| | Initial acquaintanceships with Siegfried Kracauer as well as with Gretel and Theodor Wiesengrund (Adorno). | | | Two-year sojourn at a boarding school in Haubinda, where Benjamin is a student of Gustav Wyneken. | | | Benjamin begins his friendships with Gershom Scholem and Werner Kraft. |
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http://www.iwbg.uni-duesseldorf.de/Walter_Benjamin_English
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| | New Comparison 18 |
| | Benjamin and Common Law Notions of Precedent (Julian Roberts) | | | Elective Affinity: Notes on Benjamin and Heine (Uwe Steiner) | | | Landscape in the First World War: On Benjamin's Critique of Ernst Jünger (Cornelia Vismann) |
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http://www.swan.ac.uk/german/bcla/nc18.htm
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| | NYRB Classics: Walter Benjamin |
| | Scholem was a precocious teenager when he met Benjamin, who became his close friend and intellectual mentor. | | | Gershom Scholem (1897-1982) was born in Berlin, educated at the universities of Jena and Bern, and emigrated to Palestine in 1923, where he devoted himself to the study of the Jewish mystical tradition and the Kabbala. | | | As Scholem revisits the passionate engagements over Marxism and Kabbala, Europe and Palestine that he shared with Benjamin, it is as if he sought to summon up his lost friend's spirit again, to have the last word in the argument that might have saved his life. |
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http://www.nybooks.com/shop/product?usca_p=t&product_id=949
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| | walterbenjamin.html |
| | A participant's critical evaluation of the 1st annual International Walter Benjamin Congress 1997 | | | This site maintains a collection of resource information on some of Benjamin's writings, as well as current essays about Benjamin, his work, and the work of some of his close contemporaries. | | | Walter Benjamin, Ambling Through the City of a Mind |
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http://www.wbenjamin.org/walterbenjamin.html
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| | The New York Review of Books: The Marvels of Walter Benjamin |
| | Walter Benjamin, fleeing occupied France, presents himself to the wife of a certain Fittko he has met in an internment camp. | | | The New York Review of Books: The Marvels of Walter Benjamin | | | by Walter Benjamin, Translated from the German and French by Howard Eiland, by Kevin McLaughlin |
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http://www.nybooks.com/nyrev/WWWfeatdisplay.cgi?20010111028R
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| | Amazon.com: Walter Benjamin: A Biography: Books |
| | More troubling than the lack of original research are two lacunae: his failure to offer virtually any interpretation of Benjamin's writings and his consistent misjudgements about Benjamin's motives and relationships. | | | Expecting recognition to come slowly, he wrote wryly of his intellectual "wine cellar." In his lifetime, respect for his theories on the interdependence of language, politics and literature arose largely from his periodical contributions, some of them published after his death. | | | Born in Berlin in 1892, Benjamin outlasted WWI as a graduate student but was denied the essential postdoctoral Habilitation, which would have opened doors to an academic post. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1859840825?v=glance
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| | Critical Theory: Walter Benjamin |
| | This site, created by Rita Raley at the University of California, Santa Barbara, contains an excerpt of Walter Benjamin's book One-Way Street. | | | Benjamin was born in Berlin to a wealthy Jewish family. | | | With a university career closed to him, Benjamin turned to journalism. |
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http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/litlinks/critical/benjamin.htm
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| | this Public Address 4.0: Walter Benjamin |
| | Posted by: tak at May 9, 2005 12:25 AM The photograph is scanned from Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings v3. | | | Walter Benjamin at the card catalogue of the Bibliothéque Nationale in Paris, 1937 | | | Posted by: Jeff Ward at May 17, 2005 12:40 AM Post a comment |
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http://thispublicaddress.com/tPA4/archives/2005/05/walter_benjamin.php#comments
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| | The Bard Graduate Center - Digital Showcase:Walter Benjamin's New York |
| | The Bard Graduate Center - Digital Showcase:Walter Benjamin's New York | | | Walter Benjamin is one of the most famous thinkers and writers of the twentieth century. | | | But he is least famous for what is, arguably, his greatest work, a study of the material remains of nineteenth-century Paris. |
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| | Walter Benjamin and Flanerie |
| | In this section we also focus on one of the key inspirations for Benjamin - Charles Baudelaire. | | | Again, if you don't know much about Baudelaire and his work it is worth reviewing his biography before you begin. | | | is to introduce you to the work of Walter Benjamin and to explore the figure of the flâneur. |
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http://www.man.ac.uk/sociologyonline/vccc/1_2_Benjamin_Flanerie/flanerie1.htm
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| | Walter Benjamin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Benjamin was known during his life lastly for his philosophical essays and as a critic. | | | A completed manuscript which Benjamin had carried in his suitcase, possibly his "Arcades Project," disappeared after his death and has not been recovered. | | | Selected Writings in four volumes, from Harvard University Press. |
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| | Benjamin, Walter on Encyclopedia.com |
| | Benjamin was influenced by his close friendship with the historian of Jewish mysticism Gershom Gerhard Scholem. | | | History is photography: the afterimage of Walter Benjamin. |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/B/BenjW1.asp
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| | Benjamin, Walter: The Correspondence of Walter Benjamin, 1910-1940 |
| | A "natural and extraordinary talent for letter writing was one of the most captivating facets of his nature," writes Gershom Scholem in his Foreword; and indeed, Benjamin's correspondence reveals the evolution of some of his most powerful ideas. | | | Benjamin, Walter The Correspondence of Walter Benjamin, 1910-1940. | | | Benjamin, Walter: The Correspondence of Walter Benjamin, 1910-1940 |
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http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/12535.ctl
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| | Walter Benjamin Biography / Biography of Walter Benjamin Main Biography |
| | Walter Benjamin Biography / Biography of Walter Benjamin Main Biography | | | Benjamin used that thought as the basis for what became one of his most famous essays, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. | | | family · germany · berlin · philosopher · philosophy · walter · benjamin · berlin germany · munich germany · jewish mysticism · german jews · gershom scholem · nazi oppression · walter benjamin |
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http://www.bookrags.com/biography-walter-benjamin
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| | Pound's Quest for the Paradiso |
| | Benjamin's "destructive character" might also serve as a paradigmatic description of Ezra Pound, his critical and poetic methods, and The Cantos, a work which, like the Passagen-Werk, remains unfinished. | | | Pound comes first to believe that the utopia can exist if government changes, but Pound's views shift, until finally, his hope for utopia rests only in a future which acts upon the ideas he establishes in the language of The Cantos. | | | What Pound valued as paradisal was craftsmanship, and his utopia coincides more with the Ruskin's dreamy Stones of Venice, than with Benjamin's concept of a final awakening. |
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http://webdoc.sub.gwdg.de/edoc/ia/eese/artic96/northcut/9_96.html
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| | Glossary of People: Be |
| | Born into a prosperous Jewish family, Benjamin studied philosophy in Berlin, Freiburg, Munich, and Bern. | | | Informed by the chief of police at the Franco-Spanish border that he would be turned over to the Gestapo, Benjamin committed suicide. | | | Benjamin eventually settled in Paris after leaving Germany in 1933 after Hitler came to power. |
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http://www.marxists.org/glossary/people/b/e.htm
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| | Walter Benjamin, materials by Lloyd Spencer |
| | Critique, an opposition drawn by Benjamin in his essay on Goethe's Elective Affinities | | | to Benjamin's writing of his theses 'On the Concept of History' and another page | | | I had previously worked with him on his major study of the social and philosophical significance of photography (published in his book, |
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http://www.tasc.ac.uk/depart/media/staff/ls/WBenjamin/WBindex.htm
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| | "A highly successful intellectual biography of Walter Benjamin. | | | Wolin provides nuanced interpretations of Benjamin's widely studied writings on Baudelaire, historiography, and art in the age of mechanical reproduction. | | | His books include The Politics of Being: The Political Thought of Martin Heidegger (1990) and The Terms of Cultural Criticism: The Frankfurt School, Existentialism, Poststructuralism (1992). |
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| | Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) |
| | Walter Benjamin and "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" from the k.i.s.s. | | | Benjamin's Labyrinthe (in German), a labyrithian way to experience Benjamin. | | | A page at Pop Cultures.com which has some good links and excerpts of articles on Benjamin |
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http://www.theology.ie/thinkers/benjamin.htm
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| | Internationale Walter Benjamin Gesellschaft |
| | The Society is registered in Karlsruhe (Germany); Chairman of the Board of Directors is Bernd Witte, an internationally recognized Benjamin scholar and Professor of Modern German Literature in Düsseldorf (Germany). | | | The Internationale Walter Benjamin Gesellschaft is an interdisciplinary consortium of academics, writers, media theoreticians, publishers and representatives from other cultural and social areas. | | | The members of the society come from 19 countries, both within and beyond Europe. |
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http://www.iwbg.uni-duesseldorf.de/Wer_wir_sind_english
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| | Walter Benjamin,"The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" |
| | This means that mass movements, including war, constitute a form of human behavior which particularly favors mechanical equipment. | | | Walter Benjamin,"The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" |
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http://pages.emerson.edu/Courses/spring00/in123/workofart/benjamin.htm
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| | Walter Benjamin On the Concept of History /Theses on the Philosophy of History |
| | Walter Benjamin On the Concept of History /Theses on the Philosophy of History | | | For every second of time was the strait gate through which Messiah might enter. | | | The same leap in the open air of history is the dialectical one, which is how Marx understood the revolution. |
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http://www.tasc.ac.uk/depart/media/staff/ls/WBenjamin/CONCEPT2.html
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| | http://www.uta.edu/english/dab/illuminations/bron3.html Reclaiming the Fragments: On the Messianic Materialism of Walter Benjamin By Stephen Bronner http://www.ina.fr/CP/Mediologie/art26.htm Antoine Hennion et Bruno Latour "L'art, l'aura et la distance selon Benjamin, ou comment devenir célèbre en faisant tant d'erreurs á la fois... | | | " http://www-mitpress.mit.edu/mitp/recent-books/critical/wbenjamin-passages.html MIT Press WALTER BENJAMIN'S PASSAGES by Pierre Missac trans. |
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http://www.silcom.com/~dlp/Passagen/wblinks.html
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| | BBC - Radio 3 - Opera On 3 - 12 November 2005 |
| | Dispensing with conventional action and characters, the work unfolds in a sequence of seven scenes, beginning with the suicide of the German philosopher Walter Benjamin. | | | Brian Ferneyhough's first opera recorded on its only visit to the UK at English National Opera. | | | His writings on time, history and representation are woven into Charles Bernstein's dream-like libretto, to form a modern equivalent of the early 'intermedi'. |
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| | Illustrations for John Berger's Ways of Seeing |
| | Walter Benjamin's "Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" is available on line. | | | Some images use dejavu and require a plugin for the browser. | | | Daniel Chandler has a nice set of notes on the Gaze. |
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http://courses.washington.edu/englhtml/engl569/berger/bergersup.html
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| | Ada Louise Huxtable: History Metropolis Magazine |
| | Picking up a piece of architectural criticism, the general reader expects to be toyed with, condescended to, and teased in a maddeningly suggestive dance of the seven veils that reads like a mixture of Walter Benjamin and a public-relations release. | | | These virtues, rare in themselves, appear even more maverick amid today's architecture criticism, which has settled for the most part into an elliptical mannerism where meaning seems always tantalizingly to be receding just out of reach. |
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http://www.metropolismag.com/cda/story.php?artid=1695
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| | rodcorp: How we work: Walter Benjamin, writer |
| | Listed below are links to weblogs that reference How we work: Walter Benjamin, writer: | | | In The Writer's Technique in Thirteen Theses, Benjamin advises: | | | If you have a TypeKey or TypePad account, please Sign In |
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http://rodcorp.typepad.com/rodcorp/2004/12/how_we_work_wal.html
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