📕 Node [[the arcades project]]
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The Arcades Project
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a [[book]].
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…sort of.
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perhaps closer to a [[hypertext]], before those existed.
- maybe a [[scrapbook]]. maybe a [[draft]]. maybe a [[collection of notes]].
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perhaps closer to a [[hypertext]], before those existed.
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#push [[walter benjamin]] contemporaries
- quotes from: [[marcel proust]] [[paul valéry]] [[louis aragon]] [[andré breton]] [[georg simmel]] [[ernst bloch]] [[siegfried kracauer]] [[theodor adorno]]
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[[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]].
- [[convolutes]]
- #push [[nineteenth century types]]
- [[exposé of 1935]]
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…sort of.
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