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The Arcades Project

A monumental study of nineteenth-century Paris arcades as the primal history of modernity, assembling thirteen years of Benjamin's research on architecture, culture, and collective life through methods akin to dream interpretation and historical ragpicking.

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What this book knows

Modernity's dream-world is built from commodity desire, urban phantasmagoria, and the eternal return of the new-as-always-same.

Sex: Present
Work: Present
Learning: Present
Religion: Present

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desire

Here, a lovely woman and happiness; there, fury and desolation ... you will not escape your destiny.
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mutually contradictory tendencies of desire: that of repetition and that of eternity.
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self-and-identity

existence as it is, without meaning or aim, yet recurring inevitably without any finale into nothingness: the eternal return.
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We are merely phenomena that are ancillary to its resurrections ... always brings us back the very same ones.
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Between the lion and the dandy lies an abyss ... the dandies pleased only in displeasing.
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The railway stations are today the principal entryways into Paris ... a necessity of the first order.
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