Walter Benjamin

A flaneur originally is defined as a good-for-nothing loafer who wanders around aimlessly without anything productive to do. However, this word has been redefined as a consumer of the city who enjoys the urban spectacle and knows that he is part of the spectacle too. The flaneur can also be considered an evolutionary development of the Renaissance man. If we remember back from past lectures the Renaissance man was self-centered and self-sufficient. He was also very object-oriented and would

Dickinson's Because I Could Not Stop For Death Collamer M Abbott. The Explicator. Washington: Spring 2000.Vol. 58, Iss. 3; pg. 140, 4 pgs People: Dickinson, Emily (1830-86) Author(s): Collamer M Abbott Document types: Feature Publication title: The Explicator. Washington: Spring 2000. Vol. 58, Iss. 3; pg. 140, 4 pgs Source type: Periodical ISSN/ISBN: 00144940 Text Word Count 1077 Document URL: http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=000000056709394&Fmt=3&cli entId=43168&RQT=309&VName=PQD

In Walter Benjamin’s Berlin Childhood Around 1900, he applies a variety of concepts with respect to time: past, present, and future. The concepts are highlighted in his vignettes: “Victory Column”, “The Telephone”, and “Butterfly Hunt”. Benjamin attempts to imbue his writing with a different structure of time from what was conventional. He perceives history as a section of moments, and each moment is an integral whole in its own right, making it equal to the present (Knights). Benjamin also notes

Walter Benjamin writes about the aura of works of art, and how reproductivity can affect the authenticity of the artwork. Throughout his essay, he discusses the production of art, and how each piece of art has a specific aura that separates it from any reproductions of it. Some arguments have been made that reproductivity can degrade the authenticity of a work of art, while others have been made that it spreads the influence a work of art. While both claims can be made, it is more valid that the

Walter Benjamin 's "Critique of Violence" (Zur Kritik der Gewalt), of 1921, represents of all that is most difficult about his work. However, this paper wagers that it is possible to extract politically relevant concepts from Benjamin 's notoriously abstruse text. This text hopes to demonstrate that Benjamin 's essay engages lucidly with a set of difficult questions … something about the other texts/concepts … about the status of law in modern society…. "Benjamin argues that the Law is founded on

Response to Walter Benjamin and the film “Shadow Magic” “One might generalize by saying: the technique of reproduction detaches the reproduced object from the domain of tradition. By making many reproductions it substitutes a plurality of copies for a unique existence. And in permitting the reproduction to meet the beholder or listener in his own particular situation, it reactivates the object reproduced.” - Walter Benjamin, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (1936) Benjamin is saying

The poem, “Fugue of Death” by Paul Celan, and the essay,” The Storyteller” by Walter Benjamin, in the book, “Illuminations,” cover very similar topics in each of their works of art. There are a few themes that has been presented throughout the two works, one is how there is no longer room for moral right in the world because of the need to follow political right. This was very evident in the time of the two World Wars. People are torn between doing what is right, and following orders. Another

While reading the article, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” by Walter Benjamin, it is clear to grasp the idea being portrayed. The author is determined to prove to his readers how the advancement of humanity has led to drastic changes in how we create and perceive artwork. Mechanical reproduction of a work of art, however, represents something new. Historically, it advanced intermittently and in leaps at long intervals, but with accelerated intensity. One of the questions brought

‘The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction’: how has the reproduction of images changed the development of art? Identify three works of your choice to support your argument. This essay will start from Walter Benjamin’s consideration about the impact of mechanical reproduction of art as revolutionizing its social function and will describe the noticeable validity of his theory in the contemporary world. By introducing three artworks that belong to different historical periods, namely

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