Walter Benjamin and the Aesthetics of Change [Paperback]

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.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.PuscaCLAES BELFRAGE is Lecturer in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Swansea, UKGRAEME GILLOCH is Reader in the Department of Sociology, University of Lancaster, UKRENATE HOLUB is Director of Interdisciplinary Studies at University of California, Berkeley, USELIZABETH HOWIE is Assistant Professor of Art History in the Visual Arts Department of Coastal Carolina University, USPETRA HROCH is a PhD student in the Department of Sociology at the University of Alberta, CanadaESTHER LESLIE is Professor in Political Aesthetics in the School of English and Humanities at Birkbeck, University of London, UKANCA PUSCA is Lecturer in the Department of Politics at Goldsmiths, University of London, UKZO? THOMPSON is a PhD student in the Department of Sociology at the University of Birmingham, UKKONSTANTINOS VASSILIOU is a PhD student atlƒ