Titlebook: Walter Benjamin and the Aesthetics of Change; Anca M. Pusca Book 2010 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2010

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,Commodity Display and the Phantasmagoria of Modernity: Exploring Walter Benjamin’s Critique of Histgure clusters of meaning, visual narratives through which our identities and our very notions of the real are negotiated. The commodity largely shapes our visual environment. The lines that follow open the question of commoditization of the visual.

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The Aura of Art After the Advent of the Digital,njamin, 1971b, p.197) writes Benjamin in his sixth theses on the .. In a similar vain it is not so compelling today to try to seize from the past the meaning of Benjamin’s concept of ., but conversely it is time to address the cultural concerns that are enshrouded in auratic nebulae. Thus, to rethin

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Towards a Benjaminist Political Economy,lt’ has emerged (Buck-Morss, 1989, p.ix). Benjaminist Political Economy is nevertheless unheard of.. This chapter outlines such an approach. Through a critique of Benjamin’s understanding of dialectics and intended to develop context-sensitive concepts for thinking about the processes by which the a

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Conclusion,retation of this relationship relied mainly on empirical and theoretical observations emblematic of the 19. century, this volume has sought to update his observations from the perspective of the 21. century. Reading Benjamin’s work as a methodological model of perception/observation, and embedding o

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,‘Sunshine and ,’: Benjamin, Kracauer and Roth Visit the ‘White Cities’,rcing sensation as a long dagger is plunged into your vulnerable body. You stagger backwards and slump to the ground, fatally wounded. And as your lifeblood drains away into the sand, you see the chilling smile return to the boy’s face, you hear distant cheering echoing all around.