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Being Roman Now: The Time of Fashion: A Commentary on Walter Benjamin’s ‘Theses on the Philosophy of History’ XIV
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In this article, it is argued that close attention to the temporality of change and novelty within fashion may allow an insight into a conception of interruption and the new, however, it cannot yield a politics.Abstract:
Walter Benjamin’s writings on fashion need to be read as engagements with the problem of historical time and a related politics of time. The aim of this article is to develop this position. Its point of orientation is Thesis XIV from the Theses on the Philosophy of History. What is argued is that close attention to the temporality of change and novelty within fashion may allow an insight into a conception of interruption and the ‘new’, however, it cannot yield a politics. Moreover, the link between fashion and utopianism allows for the development of a critique of the utopian dimension of Benjamin’s thought. The basis of that critique is the inherent politics of time in his own writings.read more
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O “olho do tempo”. Uma abordagem a Teses Sobre a Filosofia da História, de Walter Benjamin
TL;DR: Pretere-o em favor de um modelo de resgate das ruinas da historia e de invocacao dos esquecidos for o campo do presente, recuperados atraves de uma dialectica rememorativa entre o agora e o que o precedeu, abre espaco a possibilidade de redencao da humanidade no aqui e agora, instituindo cada segundo como "porta estreita" por onde pod
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The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
TL;DR: One of the most important works of cultural theory ever written, Walter Benjamin's groundbreaking essay explores how the age of mass media means audiences can listen to or see a work of art repeatedly and what the troubling social and political implications of this are as mentioned in this paper.
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The Arcades Project
TL;DR: Translators' Foreword Exposes Paris, the Capital of the Nineteenth Century (1935) "Paris, the City of the Twenty-First Century" (1939) Convolutes Overview First Sketches Early Drafts "Arcades" "The Arcades of Paris" 'The Ring of Saturn" Addenda Expose of 1935, Early Version Materials for the Expose and Exposition of 1935 Materials for Arcades' "Dialectics at a Standstill," by Rolf Tiedemann "The Story of Old Benjamin," by Lisa Fitt
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The politics of time
TL;DR: For all the enthusiasm for change manifest in the debates about postmodernism, there is probably currently less of a sense that 'things might proceed otherwise' in Western capitalist societies than at any time since the early 1950s as mentioned in this paper.
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Historical Materialism or Political Messianism? An Interpretation of the Theses "On the Concept of History"
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The Concept of Fashion in The Arcades Project
TL;DR: The Arcades Project as mentioned in this paper contains no less than ninety-one items devoted to fashion, but it would be quite wrong to assume that all of Benjamin's citations and observations on the subject of fashion, more specifically on fashion with respect to clothes, are to be found only there.