In ‘Experience and Poverty’, Benjamin embraces glass architecture as a revolutionary change of collective experience. Glass architecture, he states, dissolves the distinction between interior and exterior and annuls the possibility of the secret, of a hermetically closed self-assuring worldview. ‘Glass is generally the enemy of secrets’, writes Benjamin in his 1933 text, ‘and the...
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Archive for March, 2010
Eating cookies
How to describe deprivation? The emergency alimentation for Haitians consists of cookies – five packets a day per person. The Haitians have to eat cookies (referred to as biscuits). Cookies, what an irony! “Had I known that you would visit me today, I would have baked a cake” sings Ernie from Sesame Street. “But...
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Technique, art et “progrès” chez Walter Benjamin
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Actualité des grèves des travailleurs au Chili.
Qu’y a-t-il en commun entre la grève des mineurs du cuivre de janvier 2010 et la grève des travailleurs du salpêtre de 1907 ? Rien d’autre que la présence du minerai comme source de richesse. Le cuivre représente aujourd’hui 35% des exportations chiliennes. Les variations de son prix se répercutent directement sur le budget du...
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