Immersive Exhibit “Arcades” Brings Walter Benjamin Back to Life -2017
Benjamin’s passport photograph from 1928 – courtesy of the Walter Benjamin Archiv, Berlin.
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New Yorker(Walter Benjamin’s Unfinished Magnum Opus Revisited)
Take a Stroll Through Philosopher Walter Benjamin’s Brain at New NY Exhibit
‘It’s like the Talmud, there is commentary and sub-commentary’
Take a stroll through philosopher Walter Benjamin’s brain at new NY exhibit
His tragic death in the Holocaust cut short the Jewish thinker’s 1,000 page opus.
Through August 6, the Jewish Museum in New York’s immersive exhibit ‘Arcades’ brings it to life
Berlin Childhood
Name these children (arcade on FB)
Walter Benjamin (W.B for dummies on youtube)
Port Bou
Border crossing resting place
On Truth
Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help. Walter Benjamin
The Story Teller by Walter Benjamin (Guardian Review)