25 Friday Sep 2015
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“Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element: its presence in time and space, its unique existence at the place where it happens to be”.
Walter Benjamin, Illuminations
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23 Sunday Aug 2015
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“The deconstruction of the ideology of progress isn’t carried out in the name of conservation or of restoration, but in the name of revolution”.
28 Thursday May 2015
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“His face is turned towards the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage upon wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such violence that the angel can no longer close them. This storm irresistibly propels him into the future to which his back is turned, while the pile of debris before him grows skyward. This storm is what we call progress”.
Walter Benjamin describes the angel of history, Illuminations
14 Tuesday Apr 2015
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“That which withers in the age of mechanical reproduction is the aura of the work of art”.
Walter Benjamin, Illuminations
