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Author:   Esther Leslie
Publisher:   Pluto Press
Imprint:   Pluto Press
Dimensions:   Width: 13.50cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 21.50cm
Weight:   0.481kg
ISBN:  

9780745315683

ISBN 10:   0745315682
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   20 May 2000
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Author’s note Preliminaries: An Accumulation of Technological Themes 1. Explosion of a Landscape 2. Benjamin’s Objectives 3. Berlin Chthonic, Photos and Trains and Films and Cars 4. Dream Whirled: Technik and Mirroring 5. Murmurs from Darkest Europe 6. The Work of Art in the Age of Unbearable Capitulation 7. Time for an Unnatural Death Benjamin’s Finale; Excavating and Re-membering

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'An important contribution to understanding Benjamin and technology, and should be read by those wishing to better understand the original reflections on technology by one of the past century's most original thinkers' -- Douglas Kellner, UCLA 'The extensive historical detail assembled in the book is woven together with Benjamin's texts in a manner which convincingly exhibits the historical moment in the very fabric of those texts' -- Radical Philosophy

Author Information

Esther Leslie is a professor in Political Aesthetics at Birkbeck College, University of London. She is the author of Walter Benjamin (Pluto, 2000), Hollywood Flatlands, Animation, Critical Theory and the Avant Garde (Verso, 2002) and Walter Benjamin, On Photography (Reaktion, 2015).

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