From 17a30531d0aaf1343bcdd4572e84d72c8d4fac2c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Flancian <0@flancia.org> Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2022 21:30:29 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Auto saved by Logseq --- the arcades project.md | 11 ++++++----- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/the arcades project.md b/the arcades project.md index 7555f7bb3..5da51f8c8 100644 --- a/the arcades project.md +++ b/the arcades project.md @@ -6,9 +6,10 @@ - maybe a [[scrapbook]]. maybe a [[draft]]. maybe a [[collection of notes]]. - #push [[walter benjamin]] contemporaries - quotes from: [[marcel proust]] [[paul valéry]] [[louis aragon]] [[andré breton]] [[georg simmel]] [[ernst bloch]] [[siegfried kracauer]] [[theodor adorno]] - - - - in the words of the translator of our edition, the items on display ([[drafts]], [[excerpts]]) give rise to "[[a world of secret affinities]]". - - [[benjamin]] abandoned the work in [[1940]] as he had to flee [[paris]]. - - [[benjamin]] wrote to [[gershom scholem]] on [[1934]] and said that "not a syllable of the actual text of the [[passagenarbeit]] exists yet". So perhaps what we've got is essentially only [[notes]] for a work that was never written. - - but perhaps what we got is closer to what [[benjamin]] had in mind as an end state; he had experimented with [[montage]] before. + - [[foreword]] + - in the words of the translator of our edition, the items on display ([[drafts]], [[excerpts]]) give rise to "[[a world of secret affinities]]". + - [[benjamin]] abandoned the work in [[1940]] as he had to flee [[paris]]. + - [[benjamin]] wrote to [[gershom scholem]] on [[1934]] and said that "not a syllable of the actual text of the [[passagenarbeit]] exists yet". So perhaps what we've got is essentially only [[notes]] for a work that was never written. + - but perhaps what we got is closer to what [[benjamin]] had in mind as an end state; he had experimented with [[montage]] before. + - it contains [[oppressive chunks of quotations]]. - \ No newline at end of file