March 2012
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“The essence of the mythical event is return.”
– Walter Benjamin, “The Arcades Project” (via jackphilip)
Speech conquers thought, but writing commands it.... →
“The crowd is the veil through which the familiar city beckons the flaneur as...”
– Walter Benjamin, from Expose of 1935 (via veemignon)
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monumenttomodesty:
“Die Stunden, welche die Gestalt enthalten, Sind in dem Haus des Traumes abgelaufen.”
-Walter Benjamin (Einbahnstraße) (The hours, which contain the form*, pass away** in the house of dreams.) *Gestalt: complete, irreducible whole figure/self. There isn’t really an equivalent in English since we technically just...
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