Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface: An Accumulation of Technological Themes -- On 'overpowering conformism' -- 1. Explosion of a Landscape -- 'Zum Planetarium': on a betrayed elective affinity -- Surreal Experiences in Moscow and Paris...
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Helmut-Schmidt-Universität, Universität der Bundeswehr Hamburg, Universitätsbibliothek
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface: An Accumulation of Technological Themes -- On 'overpowering conformism' -- 1. Explosion of a Landscape -- 'Zum Planetarium': on a betrayed elective affinity -- Surreal Experiences in Moscow and Paris -- Fascist Warriors -- Reality/ Experience -- 2. Benjamin's Objectives -- Technology and Forms -- Photographic Technologies -- Technological Decline, Decline of Aura -- Photographic Mimesis and the Construction of Deep Realities -- 3. Berlin Chthonic, Photos and Trains and Films and Cars -- Technical Aids -- Berliner Chronik, 1932: Technology, Memory, Experience -- A Descriptive History of Technik -- Remembering Berliner Chronik: An Interpretive Projection of Technological Potential -- Experience and Poverty -- 4. Dream Whirled: Technik and Mirroring -- 'Logically Consistent Developments' -- Fetishism and Realism -- Mimesis -- Class, Technik, Dreams -- 5. Murmurs from Darkest Europe -- 1934-38: Benjamin and the Unpopular Front -- Eavesdropping in Brecht's House -- 6. The Work of Art in the Age of Unbearable Capitulation -- The 'Artwork Essay': Three Different Versions -- Actual Potential -- First Nature, 'Second Nature', 'First Technik', 'Second Technik' -- Epilogue: Aesthetics and Politics -- 7. Time for an Unnatural Death -- Puppets of History -- The Failure to Progress -- Repeats: Bourgeois Thought -- Flâneurs, Class-fighters, Conspirators -- Consumers: Empathy and Fetishism -- Anti-sympathy, Pro-modernist -- Techniques of History Writing -- Benjamin's Finale: Excavating and Remembering -- Photography and Book Jackets -- Melancholy, Personality and Monuments -- A Short History of Benjamin Studies -- Berlin, the Fall of the Wall and Anti- Marxism -- Benjamin and Trotsky, Old Man, Hunched Man: Some Elective Affinities -- A Final Assemblage -- Hanging On -- Notes.
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""Contents ""; ""Acknowledgements ""; ""Preface: An Accumulation of Technological Themes ""; ""On 'overpowering conformism' ""; ""1. Explosion of a Landscape ""; ""'Zum Planetarium': on a betrayed elective affinity ""; ""Surreal Experiences in Moscow and Paris ""; ""Fascist Warriors ""; ""Reality/ Experience ""; ""2. Benjamin's Objectives ""; ""Technology and Forms ""; ""Photographic Technologies ""; ""Technological Decline, Decline of Aura ""; ""Photographic Mimesis and the Construction of Deep Realities ""; ""3. Berlin Chthonic, Photos and Trains and Films and Cars ""; ""Technical Aids ""
""Berliner Chronik, 1932: Technology, Memory, Experience """"A Descriptive History of Technik""; ""Remembering Berliner Chronik: An Interpretive Projection of Technological Potential ""; ""Experience and Poverty ""; ""4. Dream Whirled: Technik and Mirroring ""; ""'Logically Consistent Developments'""; ""Fetishism and Realism ""; ""Mimesis ""; ""Class, Technik, Dreams""; ""5. Murmurs from Darkest Europe ""; ""1934-38: Benjamin and the Unpopular Front ""; ""Eavesdropping in Brecht's House ""; ""6. The Work of Art in the Age of Unbearable Capitulation ""
""The 'Artwork Essay': Three Different Versions """"Actual Potential ""; ""First Nature, 'Second Nature', 'First Technik', 'Second Technik'""; ""Epilogue: Aesthetics and Politics ""; ""7. Time for an Unnatural Death ""; ""Puppets of History ""; ""The Failure to Progress ""; ""Repeats: Bourgeois Thought ""; ""Flâneurs, Class-fighters, Conspirators ""; ""Consumers: Empathy and Fetishism ""; ""Anti-sympathy, Pro-modernist ""; ""Techniques of History Writing ""; ""Benjamin's Finale: Excavating and Remembering ""; ""Photography and Book Jackets ""; ""Melancholy, Personality and Monuments ""
""A Short History of Benjamin Studies """"Berlin, the Fall of the Wall and Anti- Marxism ""; ""Benjamin and Trotsky, Old Man, Hunched Man: Some Elective Affinities ""; ""A Final Assemblage ""; ""Hanging On ""; ""Notes ""; ""Preface: An Accumulation of Technological Themes""; ""1 Explosion of a Landscape""; ""2 Benjamin �s Objectives""; ""3 Berlin Chthonic,Photos and Trains and Films and Cars""; ""4 Dream Whirled:Technik and Mirroring""; ""5 Murmurs from Darkest Europe""; ""6 The Work of Art in the Age of Unbearable Capitulation""; ""7 Time for an Unnatural Death""
