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Benjamin's Passagen-Werk: Redeeming Mass Culture for the Revolution

New German Critique, 1983
I shall focus my comments on the recently published Passagen-Werk, 2 Benjamin's major but unfinished study of Paris in the 19th century, which was concerned with the origins of mass culture, and which occupied him from 1927 until his suicide in 1940. In line with the specific interests of this conference, I will consider his argument that the recently ...
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Experiments in the Technique of Awakening: Walter Benjamin’s Passagen-Werk

2021
This chapter follows Benjamin’s last work, The Arcades Project, as a model for how to observe the forms of one’s life as if walking through an exhibition. Ordinary life can be transformed into art or art transformed into life while strolling in the city, watching people, or window-shopping. The everyday can serve as our museum.
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The Passagen-Werk, the Berliner Kindheit, and the Archaeology of the "Recent Past"

New German Critique, 1986
"This book must not lay claims, not even in a single instance, to forms such as those which the Berliner Kindheit displays .... The prehistory (Urgeschichte) of the 19th century which reflects itself in the glance of the child playing on its threshold has in that book a totally different face than in the signs which it [i.e. the prehistory] engraves on
Burkhardt Lindner, Carol B. Ludtke
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