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By The Fireside – Walter Benjamin

Introduction to ‘By The Fireside’ Walter Benjamin’s review of The Old Wives’ Tale (1908) by Arnold Bennett was written in Ibiza in April–May 1933. Benjamin had left Berlin for good three weeks after the Reichstag fire, travelling via Paris and Barcelona. ‘The German atmosphere in which you look first at people’s lapels, and after that usually do … Continue reading By The Fireside – Walter Benjamin

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Terry Eagleton in conversation with Roger Scruton

What really divides the left and the right? To answer this question, Intelligence Squared brought together two giants of British intellectual culture for an ideological reckoning: Terry Eagleton, literary critic and long-time hero of the radical left, and Roger Scruton, right-wing philosopher who has written on everything from economic theory to literature, and architecture to … Continue reading Terry Eagleton in conversation with Roger Scruton

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Photography, Or The Writing Of Light

Jean Baudrillard Translated by Francois Debrix The miracle of photography, of its so-called objective image, is that it reveals a radically non-objective world. It is a paradox that the lack of objectivity of the world is disclosed by the photographic lens (objectif).2 Analysis and reproduction (ressemblance) are of no help in solving this problem. The technique of … Continue reading Photography, Or The Writing Of Light