Walter Benjamin's Paris: Projecting the Arcades

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Published 2022-01-16

This is a celebration (unfinished) of Walter Benjamin’s unfinished work, 'The Arcades Project' (Das Passagenwerk, 1927-40), which synthesises archival images of how the Paris arcades were in the old days, and in the 1930s when Benjamin studied them, with videography of how they looked in the early 2000s, accompanied by excerpts from Benjamin’s text and appropriate sounds and music. (2006)

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@priscilacarvalho3780 3 months ago

Amazing work. Thanks!
@jonathanmarty1354 1 year ago

This is so wonderful! Thank you for making + uploading it.
@davidmcqueen7797 8 months ago

This is brilliant. Thank you for making this meticulously researched piece - a huge amount of work but this a really beautiful and insightful video essay.
@214santanu 8 months ago

Speechless!!! Thanks a ton for this well-researched documentary . Genuinely a Literary Montage. So many misconceptions are hereby rectified and the idea of A Flaneur couldn't have been conceptualized without this background study. If possible please make some more videos on this issue.
@Eduardorodrch 1 year ago

The video that youtube needed thank you !
@meesalikeu 4 months ago

this is great, but the best thing is every time the guy says eye ron. 😂
@TheNoblot 4 months ago

individuals and the madding crowd / collectivism individualism ? reason why an exceptional men is always himself /however the triangle of technological progress TESLA the inventor Edison the merchant ,Morgan the banker
@TheNoblot 6 months ago

why put Jewish writer say only his name otherwise you are confusing the public and no help to him placing him as if he was a scientific product on a drawer with a brand labeled. perhaps he wants to be free form brands & labels by people that did not really know him.