Angelus Novus’ Eyesight: On Benjamin’s Aesthetic Mysticism
Paul Klee’s Angelus Novus design is used by Benjamin as a metaphor to describe the link between progress and catastrophe.
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Mad(e) Men: Historicism and History as Told Through Period Drama and TV
In the medium of the movies (what used to be short for moving pictures) there is something called an establishing Continue reading
Walter Benjamin and the Aesthetics of Video Games
The great messianic art critic Walter Benjamin saw the role of film in his era of capitalist culture as creating Continue reading
