Titlebook: Walter Benjamin and the Aesthetics of Change; Anca M. Pusca Book 2010 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2010

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Erasing the Traces, Tracing Erasures: Cultural Memory and Belonging in Newcastle/Gateshead, UK, The Sage, Gateshead, one of a number of flagship buildings built since the Millennium in the UK, seeking to revitalize the iconography of former industrial cities. In the case of The Sage, a recent addition to the Tyneside. skyline completed in 2004 and designed by ‘starchitect’ Sir Norman Foster,

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Erasing the Traces, Tracing Erasures: Cultural Memory and Belonging in Newcastle/Gateshead, UK, The Sage, Gateshead, one of a number of flagship buildings built since the Millennium in the UK, seeking to revitalize the iconography of former industrial cities. In the case of The Sage, a recent addition to the Tyneside. skyline completed in 2004 and designed by ‘starchitect’ Sir Norman Foster,

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,‘Sunshine and ,’: Benjamin, Kracauer and Roth Visit the ‘White Cities’,you notice he is smiling in a curious manner — a smile that is conventional, ceremonial, cold, calculated. You are now almost within touching distance. Suddenly the smile vanishes; the cloak is moved swiftly aside. There is a glint of something metallic in the bright sunlight and then a terrible pie

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,Fashion and Its ‘Revolutions’ in Walter Benjamin’s ,usly unfinished work was to ‘document as concretely as possible … the scene of revolutionary change that was the nineteenth century’ (., 1999, p.xii). Perhaps not surprisingly, this era of rapid transition was the period that gave rise to fashion both as a material object (for example, couture) and

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,Proof of the Forgotten: A Benjaminian Reading of Daguerre’s Two Views of the Boulevard du Temple,est manifestations, the daguerreotype, was less about mass reproduction than about magical replication and a shockingly new relationship between the past and the present. Although a number of inventors had been working toward the development of the photographic process, Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre’