| Description |
1 online resource (x, 200 pages) : illustrations, digital |
| Contents |
Aesthetics of Change: An Introduction / A. Pusca -- Towards a Global Space of Democratic Rights: On Benjamin, Gramsci, and Polanyi / R. Holub -- Erasing the Traces, Tracing Erasures: Cultural Memory and Belonging in Newcastle/Gateshead, UK / Z. Thompson -- 'Sunshine and Noir': Benjamin, Kracauer and Roth visit the 'White Cities' / G. Gilloch -- Liquidation and Shattering: Aesthetics and Politics in Cold Climates / E. Leslie -- Fashion and Its 'Revolutions' in Walter Benjamin's Arcades / P. Hroch -- Proof of the Forgotten: A Benjaminian Reading of Daguerre's Two Views of the Boulevard du Temple / E. Howie -- Commodity Display and the Phantasmagoria of Modernity: Exploring Walter Benjamin's Critique of History / R. Vasquez -- The Aura of Art After the Advent of the Digital / K. Vassiliou -- Towards a Benjaminist Political Economy / C. Belfrage |
| Summary |
Following the spirit of Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project, this volume acts as a kaleidoscope of change in the 21st century, tracing its different reflections in the international contemporary while seeking to understand both individual and collective reactions and adjustments to change through a series of questions: Is there something significantly different about the way in which 'change' occurs in the 21st century?; Is change mainly reflected in the material and visual environment surrounding us or someplace else?; What are the sensibilities through which we perceive change, and more importantly, have those sensibilities been increased or dulled by modern technology? |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940
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| SUBJECT |
Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940 fast |
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Benjamin, Walter. swd |
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Change.
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Cultural studies -- 21st century.
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PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
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Society.
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Change
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Wandel
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Philosophie
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Birmingham <2008>
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Pusca, Anca
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| ISBN |
9780230277960 |
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0230277969 |
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