Following the spirit of Benjamin's Arcades Project, this book acts as a kaleidoscope of change in the 21st century, tracing its different reflections in the international contemporary while seeking to understand individual/collectivereactions to change through a series of creative methodologies. INDICE: Aesthetics of Change: An Introduction; A.Pusca - Towards a Global Space of Democratic Rights: On Benjamin, Gramsci, and Polanyi; R.Holub - Erasing the Traces, Tracing Erasures: Cultural Memory and Belonging in Newcastle/Gateshead, UK; Z.Thompson - 'Sunshine and Noir': Benjamin, Kracauer and Roth visit the 'White Cities'; G.Gilloch - Liquidation and Shattering: Aesthetics and Politics in Cold Climates; E.Leslie - Fashion and Its 'Revolutions' in Walter Benjamin's Arcades; P.Hroch - Proof of the Forgotten: A Benjaminian Reading ofDaguerre's Two Views of the Boulevard du Temple; E.Howie - Commodity Display and the Phantasmagoria of Modernity: Exploring Walter Benjamin's Critique of History; R.Vasquez - The Aura of Art After the Advent of the Digital; K.Vassiliou - Towards a Benjaminist Political Economy; C.Belfrage - Conclusion; A.Pusca
- ISBN: 978-0-230-58086-2
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 216
- Fecha Publicación: 20/01/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés