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Category: Walter Benjamin
The Theatre as Arcade, the Arcade as Theatre
David Hodgson, an MArch student at the University of Sheffield, has won the AJ Students Award for his design of … More
Reproducibility and the Zara Jacket
FOTUS expresses herself through her outerwear. The messages, though, are ambiguous. She uses a fashion language the rest of us … More
The Arcades Project on Film
Filmmaker and art historian Judith Wechsler has made a beautiful film about Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project, entitled, appropriately enough, The Passages … More
Hanne Darboven and the Endless Archive
Cynthia Cruz sees a lot of Walter Benjamin in Hanne Darboven's Kulturegeschichte 1880–1983, currently on exhibit at Dia:Chelsia. The exhibit … More
The Landscapes of John Berger
Late in his career John Berger retreated in the foggy mists of the French countryside, reappearing every so often with … More
Looking at Your City Like a Tourist
Today may be one of the last nice days before chilly weather sets in, so I got up from my … More
Adorno on Trumpism
Watching Trump's stunningly dark acceptance speech last night, I got to wondering what Walter Benjamin would have thought of it. … More
What Karl Ove Knausgaard Learned from Walter Benjamin
In a nice acceptance speech for the Welt Literaturpreis, Karl Ove Knausgaard discusses what he learned from Walter Benjamin about … More
Politics and Art in the Digital Age, Part 2: Reproducing Andy Warhol
Continuing our discussion on aesthetics and politics from yesterday . . . Get ready for a Warhol wave in 2015, … More
One-Way Street 