📚 node [[walter benjamin]]
Walter Benjamin
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[[person]]
- [[philosopher]] [[marxist]]
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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]].
- [[project]] [[arcades project]]
- [[essay]] [[the work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction]].
- [[essay]] [[the narrator]]
- wrote about consuming [[hashish]] in [[marseille]]
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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pushed from garden/flancian/the arcades project.md by @flancian
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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]]
📖 stoas
- public document at doc.anagora.org/walter-benjamin
- video call at meet.jit.si/walter-benjamin
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