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Following the spirit of Benjamin's Arcades Project, this book acts as a kaleidoscope of change in the 21st century, tracing its different reflections in the international contemporary while seeking to understand individual/collective reactions to change through a series of creative methodologies.

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Author:   A. M. Pusca
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.395kg
ISBN:  

9780230580862

ISBN 10:   0230580866
Pages:   200
Publication Date:   20 January 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Aesthetics of Change: An Introduction; A.Pusca Towards a Global Space of Democratic Rights: On Benjamin, Gramsci, and Polanyi; R.Holub Erasing the Traces, Tracing Erasures: Cultural Memory and Belonging in Newcastle/Gateshead, UK;  Z.Thompson 'Sunshine and Noir': Benjamin, Kracauer and Roth visit the 'White Cities';  G.Gilloch Liquidation and Shattering: Aesthetics and Politics in Cold Climates;  E.Leslie Fashion and Its 'Revolutions' in Walter Benjamin's Arcades ;  P.Hroch Proof of the Forgotten: A Benjaminian Reading of Daguerre's Two Views of the Boulevard du Temple;  E.Howie Commodity Display and the Phantasmagoria of Modernity: Exploring Walter Benjamin's Critique of History;  R.Vasquez The Aura of Art After the Advent of the Digital;  K.Vassiliou Towards a Benjaminist Political Economy;  C.Belfrage Conclusion; A.Pusca

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CLAES BELFRAGE is Lecturer in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Swansea, UK GRAEME GILLOCH is Reader in the Department of Sociology, University of Lancaster, UK RENATE HOLUB is Director of Interdisciplinary Studies at University of California, Berkeley, US ELIZABETH HOWIE is Assistant Professor of Art History in the Visual Arts Department of Coastal Carolina University, US PETRA HROCH is a PhD student in the Department of Sociology at the University of Alberta, Canada ESTHER LESLIE is Professor in Political Aesthetics in the School of English and Humanities at Birkbeck, University of London, UK ANCA PUSCA is Lecturer in the Department of Politics at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK ZOË THOMPSON is a PhD student in the Department of Sociology at the University of Birmingham, UK KONSTANTINOS VASSILIOU is a PhD student at the University of Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris, France ROLANDO VASQUEZ is Assistant Professor in Sociology at the Roosevelt Academy, Utrecht University, Netherlands

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