To great writers, Walter Benjamin once wrote, "finished works weigh lighter than those fragments on which they labour their entire lives." Conceived in Paris in 1927 and still in progress when Benjamin fled the Occupation in 1940, "The Arcades Project" (in German, Das Passagen-Werk) is a monumental ruin, meticulously constructed over the course of 13 years - "the theatre," as the author called it, "of all my struggles and all my ideas." Focusing on the arcades of 19th century Paris - glass-roofed rows of shops that were early centres of consumerism - Benjamin presents a montage of quotations from, and reflections on, hundreds of published sources, arranging them in 36 categories with descriptive rubrics such as "fashion," "boredom," "dream city," "photography," "catacombs," "advertising," "prostitution," "baudelaire," "theory of progress." His central preoccupation is what he calls the commodification of things -a process in which he locates the decisive shift to the modern age. This book is Benjamin's effort to represent and to critique the bourgeois experience of 19th century history, and, in so doing, to liberate the suppressed "true history" that underlay the ideological mask. In the bustling, cluttered arcades, street and interior merge and historical time is broken up into kaleidoscopic distractions and displays of ephemera. Here, at a distance from what is normally meant by "progress," Benjamin finds the lost time(s) embedded in the spaces of things.
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评分本雅明堪稱是現代性和視覺文化研究的教父。
评分精彩..與重要 。隻看瞭前27頁，不知道以後還有沒有機會看後麵..
评分If I can only take one book to be left alone on an island, this will be the one.
评分隻讀瞭上課要求的兩節 我真的太愛瞭 而且本雅明肯定是第一個sense到spatial turn的吧！這麼一看Lefebvre Jameson Harvey真的都是在玩兒他玩剩下的瞭（如果他能再活久點 上述幾位的著作都不會是什麼驚天動地的理論瞭）
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