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Arcades Project

Arcades Project

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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“History breaks down in images not into stories.”

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Arcades Project (1927-1940)

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