Walter Benjamin

[[person]]
- [[philosopher]] [[marxist]]
Wow, I can't believe I hadn't noded him until [[2020-12-04]]!
- I [[like]] him. If he had a twitter account, I'd add him for sure.
Died after crossing on foot to [[spain]] escaping from the [[nazis]] / [[vichy france]].
- [[suicide]] in [[portbou]]
- [[1940]]
[[project]] [[arcades project]]
[[essay]] [[the work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction]].
[[essay]] [[the narrator]]
wrote about consuming [[hashish]] in [[marseille]]

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Walter Benjamin

Those who are able to face the looming reality can easily feel trapped. Walter Benjamin’s prescient metaphor of our being caught in a train without brakes—his image of “progress”1—comes easily to mind.

– [[Red-Green Revolution]]

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[[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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