By Walter Benjamin
"To nice writers," Walter Benjamin as soon as wrote, "finished works weigh lighter than these fragments on which they exertions their complete lives." Conceived in Paris in 1927 and nonetheless in development while Benjamin fled the career in 1940, The Arcades Project (in German, Das Passagen-Werk) is a huge wreck, meticulously developed over the process 13 years--"the theater," as Benjamin referred to as it, "of all my struggles and all my ideas."
Focusing at the arcades of nineteenth-century Paris-glass-roofed rows of retailers that have been early facilities of consumerism--Benjamin offers a montage of quotations from, and reflections on, 1000's of released resources, arranging them in thirty-six different types with descriptive rubrics akin to "Fashion," "Boredom," "Dream City," "Photography," "Catacombs," "Advertising," "Prostitution," "Baudelaire," and "Theory of Progress." His vital preoccupation is what he calls the commodification of things--a method during which he locates the decisive shift to the fashionable age.
The Arcades Project is Benjamin's attempt to symbolize and to critique the bourgeois adventure of nineteenth-century background, and, in so doing, to free up the suppressed "true heritage" that underlay the ideological masks. within the bustling, cluttered arcades, highway and inside merge and historic time is damaged up into kaleidoscopic distractions and screens of ephemera. the following, at a distance from what's regularly intended via "progress," Benjamin reveals the misplaced time(s) embedded within the areas of things.
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