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Thinking images / Rainer Nägele -- Benjamin and cinema: not a one-way street / Miriam Hansen -- "The dynamite of a tenth of a second": Benjamin's revolutionary Messianism in silent film comedy / Tom McCall -- Aura reconsidered: Benjamin and contemporary visual culture / Lutz Koepnick -- Under construction: Walter Benjamin's "The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction" / Eva Geulen -- Suicitation: Benjamin and Freud / Laurence A. Rickels -- Genuine obscurity shadows the semblance whose obliteration promises redemption: reflections on Benjamin's "Goethe's elective affinites" / Stanley Corngold -- Portrait of melancholy (Benjamin, Warburg, Panofsky) / Beatrice Hanssen -- History of the delayed disintegration of phenomena / Fritz Breithaupt -- Virtual Paris: Benjamin's Arcades project / Kevin McLaughlin -- Aesthetics? Philosophy of history? Theology! / Norbert Bolz -- Tragedy and prophecy in Benjamin's Origin of the German mourning play / Peter Fenves -- Ornament, constellation, flurries / Bettine Menke -- Eros and language: Benjamin's Kraus essay / Sigrid Wiegel. |
