Reservations of the Marvellous
T.J. Clark, 22 June 2000
The Arcades Project
by Walter Benjamin, translated by Howard Eiland.
Harvard, 1073 pp., £24.95, December 1999,9780674043268 Show More
by Walter Benjamin, translated by Howard Eiland.
Harvard, 1073 pp., £24.95, December 1999,
“... all gaslit or twilit. It has no true outside – no edges, no plein air, no Argenteuil or Robinson. No place, that is, where Nature itself is put through the sieve of exchange value, and laid on in the form of daytrips and villégiatures; and no answering dream of pure visibility and outwardness, or of the endless strangeness of earthbound life. No ... ”
