Introducing Walter Benjamin by Howard Caygill

Author:Howard Caygill
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781785780196
Publisher: Icon Books Ltd

People walk in zigzags because it’s so overcrowded … And my hair is very electric here!

Benjamin witnessed the post-mortem cult of Lenin with its iconic images and figures of every size, pose and material, omnipresent from public institutions to kitchens and laundries.

You need to learn skating to walk on this ice … Hmm, the lenin mausoleum is total botch!

Benjamin foresaw a possible fusion emerging between the state and organized crime, not in the chaotic sense of Naples’ camorra, but in the efficient Stalinist secret police. He had theoretically anticipated that possibility in his “Critique of Violence” (1921) which described police power as “formless, a nowhere-tangible, all-pervasive ghostly presence”.

Benjamin donated the money for a goose to be shared at Christmas dinner with Asja. It was badly cooked and divided between six to eight other people sitting round a desk. Only Russian was spoken and Asja tired of translating for him.

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