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- Walter Benjamin: Fragments, Salvage and Detours https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/walter-benjamin-fragments-salvage-detours/ 2 comments
- Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project as a blueprint for living online https://reallifemag.com/the-arcades-project/ 2 comments
- Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, and the critique of pop culture http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/09/15/naysayers 15 comments
- On Walter Benjamin's Concept of History https://jhiblog.org/2023/09/20/on-walter-benjamins-concept-of-history/ 2 comments truereddit
- Walter Benjamin: The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction https://youtu.be/blq9sCIyXgA 25 comments philosophy
- Walter Benjamin: The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (1936) http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/benjamin.htm 66 comments philosophy
- Walter Benjamin and Critical Theory http://ceasefiremagazine.co.uk/in-theory-benjamin-1/ 6 comments philosophy
- Gaming & Walter Benjamin, or: The gaming in the age of digital reproduction http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/benjamin.htm 3 comments philosophy
- Walter Benjamin’s “Critique of Violence” Is a Revolutionary Call to Arms https://jacobinmag.com/2021/08/walter-benjamin-critique-of-violence-revolution-working-class-kapp-putsch 10 comments philosophy
- Fascism is the Aestheticization of Politics: Walter Benjamin on Fascism, Futurism, and the Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/benjamin.htm 26 comments philosophy
- The Naysayers: Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, and the critique of pop culture. http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/09/15/naysayers 21 comments philosophy
- Walter Benjamin's The Author as Producer and Its Relevancy in The Wake of George Floyd's Death https://medium.com/@j_d_/what-can-walter-benjamin-tell-us-about-the-black-lives-matter-movements-use-of-visual-mediums-892a327c5445 3 comments philosophy
- In 2004, Steve Jobs approached Walter Isaacson, known for his books on Benjamin Franklin and Albert Einstein, and requested him to write a biography of his life. Isaacson replied maybe, but Jobs got cancer and died in 2011. Jobs wanted this book for his kids so they can understand him https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/technology/2011/10/steve-jobs-biographer-walter-isaacson-remembers-the-apple-visionary 3 comments books
- A video analyzing the law, violence, & enforcement of the law using various examples and referencing philosophy Walter Benjamin's article "Critique of Violence" https://youtu.be/ktKMEqVytX0 2 comments philosophy
- Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Walter Benjamin 1892-1940 a German philosopher and historian who analysed modernity by studying the past of Paris in his Arcades Project. He is also famous for The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction which studied the impact of film and photography. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0014710 2 comments germany
- Walter Benjamin on Fascism: "Fascism attempts to organize the newly created proletarian masses without affecting the property structure which the masses strive to eliminate. Fascism sees its salvation in giving these masses not their right, but instead a chance to express themselves" https://web.mit.edu/allanmc/www/benjamin.pdf 213 comments philosophy
- Walter Benjamin's Last Work | Scrawled across the backs of envelopes in the shadow of imminent death, Benjamin's 'Theses on the Philosophy of History' lay at the center of a chaotic wartime executorship of his literary estate https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/walter-benjamins-last-work/ 16 comments philosophy
- Walter Payton Man of the Year Finalists: Anquan Boldin (San Francisco), Benjamin Watson (New Orleans), Eli Manning (NY Giants) https://twitter.com/NFL345/status/691381444250193920 143 comments nfl
- Can anyone help explicate this bit of Walter Benjamin on labor strikes: "The moment of violence, however, is necessarily introduced, in the form of extortion, into such an omission, if it takes place in the context of a conscious readiness to resume the suspended action . . . " (281-282)? http://www.columbia.edu/cu/english/critique_of_violence.pdf 4 comments culturalstudies
- Experiments on Hashish, Opium & Mescalin 1927-34: Commentary by Walter Benjamin. [and I thought Huxley's take was interesting!] http://www.wbenjamin.org/protocol1.html#protocol%20i 2 comments reddit.com