This article discusses Walter Benjamin’s essay on Surrealism (1929) and focuses on three key elements any anthropological-materialist concept of politics has to address: (1) a profane illumination of the capitalist everyday life, (2) the problem of political representation, and (3) the interdependency of body politics and the (im)possible community of political acting. This article is a contribution to the ongoing debate on ‘what is anthropological materialism’ after Benjamin
There seems to be an inherent tension between intoxication and critique. We tend to associate intoxi...
In the present context of the triumph of capitalism over real socialism, this article points out tha...
During the inter-war years in Europe a rebellion against what was perceived of as an overly rational...
This paper explores Walter Benjamin’s relationship with French Surrealism from sources rarely studie...
For all those points in which, despite our most fundamental and concrete agreement in other matters,...
This paper explores Walter Benjamin’s relationship with French Surrealism from sources rarely studie...
In Walter Benjamin. The Story of a Friendship (1975) Gershom Scholem recalls how he and Benjamin use...
“The Constellation of Social Ontology” says that Walter Benjamin, best known among scholars for his ...
I want to argue that the dopey lyricism of the hashish writings is linked explicitly to poetics as a...
This thesis considers the relation between concepts of intoxication and of the avant-garde in some n...
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Walter Benjamin’s observation that fascism turns politics into aesthetics is, by now, a well-worn id...
From surrealism’s beginnings around a Parisian séance table, it oscillated between the occult and th...
The author shows how Walter Benjamin modified Marx’s core concepts of a capitalist political economy...
This paper examines Walter Benjamin’s argument that the matter—the materials —of materialist histori...
There seems to be an inherent tension between intoxication and critique. We tend to associate intoxi...
In the present context of the triumph of capitalism over real socialism, this article points out tha...
During the inter-war years in Europe a rebellion against what was perceived of as an overly rational...
This paper explores Walter Benjamin’s relationship with French Surrealism from sources rarely studie...
For all those points in which, despite our most fundamental and concrete agreement in other matters,...
This paper explores Walter Benjamin’s relationship with French Surrealism from sources rarely studie...
In Walter Benjamin. The Story of a Friendship (1975) Gershom Scholem recalls how he and Benjamin use...
“The Constellation of Social Ontology” says that Walter Benjamin, best known among scholars for his ...
I want to argue that the dopey lyricism of the hashish writings is linked explicitly to poetics as a...
This thesis considers the relation between concepts of intoxication and of the avant-garde in some n...
In this article I argue that the theories of Walter Benjamin about technology may help us to underst...
Walter Benjamin’s observation that fascism turns politics into aesthetics is, by now, a well-worn id...
From surrealism’s beginnings around a Parisian séance table, it oscillated between the occult and th...
The author shows how Walter Benjamin modified Marx’s core concepts of a capitalist political economy...
This paper examines Walter Benjamin’s argument that the matter—the materials —of materialist histori...
There seems to be an inherent tension between intoxication and critique. We tend to associate intoxi...
In the present context of the triumph of capitalism over real socialism, this article points out tha...
During the inter-war years in Europe a rebellion against what was perceived of as an overly rational...
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