Posts Tagged ‘ Walter Benjamin ’

Publication : Fantasmagories du capital

07/02/2013
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Publication : Fantasmagories du capital Marc Berdet, Fantasmagories du capital. L’invention de la ville-marchandise, Paris, La Découverte (coll. Zones), 2013. Quel rapport entre les spectres d’un couvent parisien, des héroïnes séquestrées dans des châteaux gothiques et les flâneurs des passages couverts de Paris ? Quel point commun entre les visiteurs des Expositions universelles, les joueurs captivés par les néons...
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Towards a Politics of ‘Pure Means’: Walter Benjamin and the Question of Violence

28/08/2011
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Towards a Politics of ‘Pure Means’: Walter Benjamin and the Question of Violence

In his compelling essay on the On the Critique of Violence (1921), Benjamin dwells on the dialectic of “mythic violence” consisting of law-preserving and law-constituting violence (Gewalt), which mutually presuppose each other. While the former might be identified with today’s bio-political microphysics of power, the latter refers to the constitutive act of establishing power...
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