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Walter Benjamin and the Aesthetics of Change

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  • © 2010

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Editors:
  1. Anca M. Pusca

    1. Goldsmiths, University of London, UK

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Aesthetics of Change: An Introduction

    • Anca M. Pusca
    Pages 1-9

  3. Towards A Global Space of Democratic Rights: On Benjamin, Gramsci, and Polanyi

    • Renate Holub
    Pages 10-54

  4. Erasing the Traces, Tracing Erasures: Cultural Memory and Belonging in Newcastle/Gateshead, UK

    • Zoë Thompson
    Pages 55-81

  5. ‘Sunshine and Noir’: Benjamin, Kracauer and Roth Visit the ‘White Cities’

    • Graeme Gilloch
    Pages 82-94

  6. Liquidation and Shattering: Aesthetics and Politics in Cold Climates

    • Esther Leslie
    Pages 95-107

  7. Fashion and Its ‘Revolutions’ in Walter Benjamin’s Arcades

    • Petra Hroch
    Pages 108-126

  8. Proof of the Forgotten: A Benjaminian Reading of Daguerre’s Two Views of the Boulevard du Temple

    • Elizabeth Howie
    Pages 127-143

  9. Commodity Display and the Phantasmagoria of Modernity: Exploring Walter Benjamin’s Critique of History

    • Rolando Vázquez
    Pages 144-157

  10. The Aura of Art After the Advent of the Digital

    • Konstantinos Vassiliou
    Pages 158-170

  11. Towards a Benjaminist Political Economy

    • Claes Belfrage
    Pages 171-192

  12. Conclusion

    • Anca M. Pusca
    Pages 193-197

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 198-200
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Following the spirit of Benjamin's Arcades Project, this book acts as a kaleidoscope of change in the 21st century, tracing its different reflections in the international contemporary while seeking to understand individual/collective reactions to change through a series of creative methodologies.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Goldsmiths, University of London, UK

    Anca M. Pusca

About the editor

CLAES BELFRAGE is Lecturer in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Swansea, UK GRAEME GILLOCH is Reader in the Department of Sociology, University of Lancaster, UK RENATE HOLUB is Director of Interdisciplinary Studies at University of California, Berkeley, US ELIZABETH HOWIE is Assistant Professor of Art History in the Visual Arts Department of Coastal Carolina University, US PETRA HROCH is a PhD student in the Department of Sociology at the University of Alberta, Canada ESTHER LESLIE is Professor in Political Aesthetics in the School of English and Humanities at Birkbeck, University of London, UK ANCA PUSCA is Lecturer in the Department of Politics at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK ZOË THOMPSON is a PhD student in the Department of Sociology at the University of Birmingham, UK KONSTANTINOS VASSILIOU is a PhD student at the University of Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris, France ROLANDO VASQUEZ is Assistant Professor in Sociology at the Roosevelt Academy, Utrecht University, Netherlands

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