发表于2024-05-05
The Arcades Project 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
图书标签: 本雅明 Benjamin 建筑 哲学 城市 现代性 历史 WalterBenjamin
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.
1. commodity gives cities possibilities--creating a commodity gift--giving a gift to a stranger--fashion 2. Paris as a “landscape built of sheer life--blurred boundary of "interior" & "exterior"--essential solitude--modernity 3. walk takes on a narrative quality--move from present moment to history--extract creativity from walking
评分只读了上课要求的两节 我真的太爱了 而且本雅明肯定是第一个sense到spatial turn的吧!这么一看Lefebvre Jameson Harvey真的都是在玩儿他玩剩下的了(如果他能再活久点 上述几位的著作都不会是什么惊天动地的理论了)
评分*thoughts on exterior/interior and commodity/connoisseurship (plz read more for senior thesis
评分煌煌巨著。
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The Arcades Project 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书