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Walter Benjamin

October 29, 2013
Tagged as: André Breton, Surrealism, Walter Benjamin

Face of an alarm clock

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‘An A to Z of theory’, Ceasefire discuss Walter Benjamin on Surrealism, storytelling and cultural politics.

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October 22, 2013
Tagged as: Jonathan Franzen, Karl Kraus, satire, translation, Walter Benjamin

Rumours & glimpses

KarlKraus

Bookforum on Franzen’s new translation of Karl Kraus.

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October 7, 2013
Tagged as: Walter Benjamin, Writing

The Writer’s Technique in Thirteen Theses

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By Walter Benjamin.

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October 1, 2013
Tagged as: Elizabeth Hardwicke, Hannah Arendt, Martin Heidegger, Mary McCarthy, Susan Sontag, Walter Benjamin

The ethics of admiration

HannahArendt

Great essay by Darryl Pinckney on Hannah Arendt, Mary McCarthy, Elizabeth Hardwick and Susan Sontag in the Threepenny Review.

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September 7, 2013
Tagged as: Franz Kafka, translation, Walter Benjamin

Discontented contentment

Denis Donoghue on Reiner Stach’s Kafka: The Years of Insight:

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