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Benjamin on Fashion

Author : Philipp Ekardt
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350076006

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Benjamin on Fashion reconstructs and redefines Walter Benjamin's complex, fragmentary and yet influential fashion theory that he developed in the Arcades Project (1927-1940) and beyond, while situating it within the environment from which it emerged - 1930s Parisian couture. In this insightful new book, Philipp Ekardt brings Benjamin into discussion with a number of important, but frequently overlooked sources. Amongst many others, these include the German fashion critic Helen Grund, who introduced him to the contemporary fashion scene; Georg Simmel's fashion sociology; Henri Focillon's morphological art history; designs by Elsa Schiaparelli and Madeleine Vionnet; films by L'Herbier and others starring Mae West; and the photography of George Hoyningen-Huene and Man Ray. In doing so, Ekardt demonstrates how fashion and silhouettes became grounded in sex; how an ideal of the elegant animation of matter was pitted against the concept of an obdurate fashion form; and how Benjamin's idea of 'fashion's tiger's leap into the past' paralleled the return of 1930s couture to the depths of (fashion) history. The use of such relevant sources makes this crucial for understanding Benjamin both as a thinker and a cultural theorist.

Benjamin's -abilities

Author : Samuel Weber
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2008-06-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0674028376

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Benjamin's -abilities by Samuel Weber Pdf

A leading theorist on literature and media reveals a new and productive aspect of Benjamin’s thought by focusing on the critical suffix “-ability” that Benjamin so tellingly deploys in his work. The result is an illuminating perspective on Benjamin’s thought by way of his language.

The Swans of Fifth Avenue

Author : Melanie Benjamin
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Biographical fiction
ISBN : 9780345528698

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The Swans of Fifth Avenue by Melanie Benjamin Pdf

Of all the glamorous stars of New York high society, none blazes brighter than Babe Paley and her friends, the alluring socialite Swans. But beneath this elegantly composed exterior dwells a passionate woman, desperately longing for true love and connection. Enter Truman Capote. Through Babe, Truman gains unparalleled access to the scandal and gossip of Babe's powerful circle. Babe never imagines the destruction Truman will leave in his wake-- even when the stories aren't his to tell.

Walter Benjamin and the Aesthetics of Change

Author : A. M. Pusca
Publisher : Springer
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2010-01-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230277960

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Walter Benjamin and the Aesthetics of Change by A. M. Pusca Pdf

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.

Fashion Theory

Author : Malcolm Barnard
Publisher : Routledge Student Readers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Clothing and dress
ISBN : 0415413397

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Fashion Theory by Malcolm Barnard Pdf

This collection of essays surveys and contextualises the ways in which a wide range of disciplines have used different theoretical approaches to explain, and sometimes to explain away, the variety, complexity and beauty of fashion.

Walter Benjamin and the Aesthetics of Change

Author : A. M. Pusca
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-20
Category : History
ISBN : 1349368792

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Walter Benjamin and the Aesthetics of Change by A. M. Pusca Pdf

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.

The Benjamin Files

Author : Fredric Jameson
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781839765575

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Jameson’s first full-length engagement with Walter Benjamin’s work. The Benjamin Files offers a comprehensive new reading of all of Benjamin's major works and a great number of his shorter book reviews, notes and letters. Its premise is that Benjamin was an anti-philosophical, anti-systematic thinker whose conceptual interests also felt the gravitational pull of his vocation as a writer. What resulted was a coexistence or variety of language fields and thematic codes which overlapped and often seemed to contradict each other: a view which will allow us to clarify the much-debated tension in his works between the mystical or theological side of Benjamin and his political or historical inclination. The three-way tug of war over his heritage between adherents of his friends Scholem, Adorno and Brecht, can also be better grasped from this position, which gives the Brechtian standpoint more due than most influential academic studies. Benjamin’s corpus is an anticipation of contemporary theory in the priority it gives language and representation over philosophical or conceptual unity; and its political motivations are clarified by attention to the omnipresence of History throughout his writing, from the shortest articles to the most ambitious projects. His explicit program—“to transfer the crisis into the heart of language” or, in other words, to detect class struggle at work in the most minute literary phenomena—requires the reader to translate the linguistic or representational literary issues that concerned him back into the omnipresent but often only implicitly political ones. But the latter are those of another era, to which we must gain access, to use one of Benjamin’s favorite expressions.

My Truth

Author : Don Benjamin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1735128805

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My Truth by Don Benjamin Pdf

Fashion model, actor, and musician, Don Benjamin gets vulnerable and gives you a look into his life story and his journey through success and his personal relationships. Reading this book will help men grow and help women gain a better understanding of how men operate. He shares information about his childhood, his Midwest upbringing, and his journey to fame. Don also gives an in-depth look into relationship issues regarding unfaithfulness that he has faced not only as a man in this world, but also as a man in the entertainment industry. He candidly describes what it takes to understand the truth about men and what it takes to become a faithful, God-fearing man.Don has added thoughtful potent questions at the end of every chapter, that everyone should ask themselves. These questions will help you better understand your own journey and how you can release past pain and live with the intention and faith.

Unlabel

Author : Marc Ecko
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781451685312

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Unlabel by Marc Ecko Pdf

"One of the most provocative entrepreneurs of our time, who started Eckō Unltd out of his parents' garage and turned it into a media empire, Marc Eckō reveals his formula for building an authentic brand or business. Marc Eckō began his career by spray-painting t-shirts in the garage of his childhood home in suburban New Jersey. A graffiti artist with no connections and no fashion pedigree, he left the safety net of pharmacy school to start his own company. Armed with only hustle, sweat equity, and creativity, he flipped a $5,000 bag of cash into a global corporation now worth $500 million. Unlabel is a success story, but it's one that shares the bruises, scabs, and gut-wrenching mistakes that every entrepreneur must overcome to succeed. Through his personal prescription for success--the Authenticity Formula--Eckō recounts his many innovations and misadventures in his journey from misfit kid to the CEO. It wasn't a meteoric rise; in fact, it was a rollercoaster that dipped to the edge of bankruptcy and even to national notoriety, but this is an underdog story we can learn from: Ecko's doubling down on the core principles of the brand and his formula for action over talk are all lessons for today's entrepreneurs. Ecko offers a brash message with his inspirational story: embrace pain, take risks, and be yourself. Unlabel demonstrates that, like or not, you are a brand and it's up you to take control of it and create something authentic. Unlabel is a groundbreaking guide to channeling your creativity, finding the courage to defy convention, and summoning the confidence to act and be competitive in any environment"--

sulphurtongue

Author : Rebecca Salazar
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-23
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780771094699

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sulphurtongue by Rebecca Salazar Pdf

An urgent, powerful examination of place and the ways in which all kinds of identities exist and collide. GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARD FOR POETRY, FINALIST PAT LOWTHER MEMORIAL AWARD, SHORTLIST J. M. ABRAHAM ATLANTIC POETRY AWARD, SHORTLIST GERALD LAMPERT MEMORIAL AWARD, LONGLIST The poems in sulphurtongue ask how to redefine desire and kinship across languages, and across polluted environments. An immigrant family scatters over a stolen continent. Oracles appear in public transit, and online. Bodies are transformed by nearby nickel mines. Doppelgangers, Catholic saints, and polyamorists alike pass on unusual inheritances. Deeply entangled in relations both emotional and ecological, this collection confronts the stories we tell about gender, queerness, race, religion, illness, and trauma, seeking new forms of care for a changing world.

Benjamin's Arcades

Author : Peter Buse
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2006-09-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0719069890

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'Benjamin's Arcades' is an innovative text for students and specialists on the intellectual and political context of Walter Benjamin's unfinished masterpiece, 'The Arcades Project'. It includes a special 'convoluted index' to aid the reader in discovering recurrent themes and ideas, both in the book itself and Benjamin's methods.

The Arcades Project

Author : Walter Benjamin
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 1100 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 067404326X

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The Arcades Project by Walter Benjamin Pdf

Focusing on the arcades of 19th-century Paris--glass-roofed rows of shops that were early centers of consumerism--Benjamin presents a montage of quotations from, and reflections on, hundreds of published sources. 46 illustrations.

Tigersprung

Author : Ulrich Lehmann
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0262621711

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Tigersprung by Ulrich Lehmann Pdf

The history of modernity written as a philosophy if fashion, set in the cultural framework of Paris.

The Dialectics of Seeing

Author : Susan Buck-Morss
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1991-07-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0262521644

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The Dialectics of Seeing by Susan Buck-Morss Pdf

Walter Benjamin's magnum opus was a book he did not live to write. In The Dialectics of Seeing, Susan Buck-Morss offers an inventive reconstruction of the Passagen Werk, or Arcades Project, as it might have taken form. Working with Benjamin's vast files of citations and commentary which contain a myriad of historical details from the dawn of consumer culture, Buck-Morss makes visible the conceptual structure that gives these fragments philosophical coherence. She uses images throughout the book to demonstrate that Benjamin took the debris of mass culture seriously as the source of philosophical truth. The Paris Arcades that so fascinated Benjamin (as they did the Surrealists whose "materialist metaphysics" he admired) were the prototype, the 19th century "ur-form" of the modern shopping mall. Benjamin's dialectics of seeing demonstrate how to read these consumer dream houses and so many other material objects of the time—from air balloons to women's fashions, from Baudelaire's poetry to Grandville's cartoons—as anticipations of social utopia and, simultaneously, as clues for a radical political critique. Buck-Morss plots Benjamin's intellectual orientation on axes running east and west, north and south—Moscow Paris, Berlin-Naples—and shows how such thinking in coordinates can explain his understanding of "dialectics at a standstill." She argues for the continuing relevance of Benjamin's insights but then allows a set of "afterimages" to have the last word.

Walter Benjamin

Author : Howard Eiland
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 765 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780674727243

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Walter Benjamin by Howard Eiland Pdf

Walter Benjamin was perhaps the twentieth century's most elusive intellectual. His writings defy categorization, and his improvised existence has proven irresistible to mythologizers. In a major new biography, Howard Eiland and Michael Jennings present a comprehensive portrait of the man and his times, as well as extensive commentary on his work.