Walter Benjamin: The Arcades Project Object and the Zeitgeist of 1960s

and the Zeitgeist of 1960s California

Alessandra Troncone

the end of a family line

USA in 2014 before completing an MFA from the Slade School of Fine Art

Stephen Dillon

Walter Benjamin: The Arcades Project Object and the Zeitgeist of 1960sHarvard University Press, 2002, softcover, 1088 pages, 16. 5 x 25. 4 cm "To great writers," Walter Benjamin once wrote, "finished works weigh lighter than those fragments on which they labor their entire lives." Conceived in Paris in 1927 and still in progress when Benjamin fled the Occupation in 1940, The Arcades Project (in German, Das Passagen Werk) is a monumental ruin, meticulously constructed over the course of thirteen years "the theater," as