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Arcades Project

Arcades Project
Walter Benjamin

Passagenwerk or Arcades Project was an unfinished project of German literary critic Walter Benjamin, written between 1927 and 1940. An enormous collection of writings on the city life of Paris in the 19th century, it was especially concerned with Paris' iron-and-glass covered "arcades" .

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“In the fields with which we are concerned knowledge exists only in lightning flashes. The text is the thunder rolling long afterwards.”

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Arcades Project (1927-1940)

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“Only a thoughtless observer can deny that correspondences come into play between the world of modern technology and the archaic symbol-world of mythology.”

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Arcades Project (1927-1940)

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“History breaks down in images not into stories.”

Walter Benjamin book Arcades Project

Arcades Project (1927-1940)

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