#Grahm Parkes
This is a video montage of Walter Benjamin’s arcades project by Grahm Parkes, Professor of Philosophy at University College Cork in Ireland.
‘This six-and-a-half-minute video, Flânerie, is an audiovisual projection of a number of themes in Convolute M (“The Flâneur”) of The Arcades Project, with a focus on the flâneur’s “kaleidoscopic consciousness” and experience of the crowd, as well as on the “colportage phenomenon of space.” It is one of nine chapters in a longer celebration and elaboration in digital video of Benjamin’s unfinished masterpiece which is entitled Walter Benjamin’s Paris: Projecting the Arcades.’
Read Professor Parkes’ essay, “The Paris Arcades: Homage to Walter Benjamin”
