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Posts Tagged ‘ Walter Benjamin ’
Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Angst essen Seele auf (Fear Eats the Soul), 1974
The essay that we share below, by Andrew Robinson, bears the virtue of clarity; like a collector, he assembles the bits of Walter Benjamin’s work on messianism and revolution. And yet becaus…
Source: Walter Benjamin: Messianism and Revolution – Theses on History | Autonomies
On Truth
Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help. – Walter Benjamin
Source: Vitro Nasu » Blog Archive » Immersive Exhibit “Arcades” Brings Walter Benjamin Back to Life -2017
This exhibition of contemporary artworks presents photography, video, sculpture, and painting seen through the lens of influential philosopher Walter Benjamin’s magnum opus The Arcades Project.
Source: The Jewish Museum – The Arcades: Contemporary Art and Walter Benjamin
The Seven Deadly Sins (detail: Superbia, or Pride): Hieronymus Bosch, c. 1480