Walter Benjamin and the Aesthetics of Change

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. Pusca