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The Arcades Project
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a [[book]].
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...sort of.
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perhaps closer to a [[hypertext]], before those existed.
- maybe a [[scrapbook]]. maybe a [[draft]]. maybe a [[collection of notes]].
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perhaps closer to a [[hypertext]], before those existed.
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#push [[walter benjamin]] contemporaries
- quotes from: [[marcel proust]] [[paul valéry]] [[louis aragon]] [[andré breton]] [[georg simmel]] [[ernst bloch]] [[siegfried kracauer]] [[theodor adorno]]
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[[foreword]]
- in the words of the translator of our edition, the items on display ([[drafts]], [[excerpts]]) give rise to "[[a world of secret affinities]]".
- [[benjamin]] abandoned the work in [[1940]] as he had to flee [[paris]].
- [[benjamin]] wrote to [[gershom scholem]] on [[1934]] and said that "not a syllable of the actual text of the [[passagenarbeit]] exists yet". So perhaps what we've got is essentially only [[notes]] for a work that was never written.
- but perhaps what we got is closer to what [[benjamin]] had in mind as an end state; he had experimented with [[montage]] before.
- it contains [[oppressive chunks of quotations]].
- [[convolutes]]
- #push [[nineteenth century types]]
- [[exposé of 1935]]
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...sort of.
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- public document at doc.anagora.org/the-arcades-project
- video call at meet.jit.si/the-arcades-project
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1934
1940
a world of secret affinities
andré breton
arcades project
benjamin
book
collection of notes
collector
convolutes
draft
drafts
ernst bloch
excerpts
exposé of 1935
flaneur
foreword
fourier
gambler
georg simmel
gershom scholem
glass
hypertext
iron
louis aragon
marcel proust
marx
montage
nineteenth century types
notes
oppressive chunks of quotations
paris
passagenarbeit
paul valéry
phalanstery
scrapbook
siegfried kracauer
theodor adorno
utopian
walter benjamin
zola
1934
1940
a world of secret affinities
andré breton
arcades project
benjamin
book
collection of notes
collector
convolutes
draft
drafts
ernst bloch
excerpts
exposé of 1935
flaneur
foreword
fourier
gambler
georg simmel
gershom scholem
glass
hypertext
iron
louis aragon
marcel proust
marx
montage
nineteenth century types
notes
oppressive chunks of quotations
paris
passagenarbeit
paul valéry
phalanstery
scrapbook
siegfried kracauer
theodor adorno
utopian
walter benjamin
zola
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