"The construction of life is, at present, much more dominated by events that convictions. And for a type of events that almost never, and nowhere, yet reached base convictions. Under these circumstances, a genuine literary activity can not claim to operate within the framework restricted to literature: it is rather the expression usual from its lack. To be meaningful, effective literature can only emerge from the rigorous exchange between action and writing has to translate, through leaflets, pamphlets, magazine articles and posters, the modest ways that best match their influence within the active communities that pretentious universal gesture of the book. Only the quick and straightforward language reveal a proper operational efficiency to the current time. Opinions are the gigantic apparatus of social life which the oil is to machinery. No one stands in front of a turbine and the flood of lubricant. Pouring a few drops on hidden rivets and joints that need to know "( Walter Benjamin:" Gas Station "in address only.)
Leo Walter Benjamin in this text written ninety years ago. Maybe I'm obsessed but I think you're talking about something like a blog. An advance, a visionary.
"In a love most people look for an eternal home. Others, though very few, a perennial travel. These are melancholy that have to shun contact with mother earth. Who seek to keep them away from the melancholy of the country. And they are faithful. The medieval treatises on the humours know the appetite for such long trips of people. " (W alter Benjamin )
was red, say some.
Five million unemployed in Spain. Fukushima boil. A bomb explodes in Morocco. Deaths and death, suffering, Syria, Libya, Yemen, in Ivory Coast, Palestine and leave me some countries safe. I do remember Haiti.
The match referee robbed us , say others.
" While you're working, try sustraerte to the mediocrity of the everyday. A quiet half, accompanied by sounds trivial, it degrades. However, the accompaniment of a music studio or a murmur of voices can be as significant for work as the perceptible silence of the night. If it sharpens the inner ear, it becomes the touchstone of a speech whose fulness buries itself to the eccentric sounds. " ( W alter Benjamin )
Why so much talk about Walter Benjamin?
not be bought or sold true love, but you have to sell , sell, sell, find what appeals to potential buyers of culture. True, me about your "Book of the passages " (click) and, now, I want to buy me . I go to Fnac, I look, 1,104 pages, € 103.30, Milks cults, I'll ask the Kings (Magi) . I see your availability the Media library of the Corn Exchange, is not, but I find his " only Address ." home I'll take tight against your chest (I dread this immediacy of wanting something and get it immediately, I was dying desire).
Who was Walter Benjamin ?
E scritor, Marxist theorist and German aesthetic philosopher . Born in Berlin in the bosom of a bourgeois Jewish family and studied philosophy in Berlin, Freiburg, Munich and Bern. In 1920 he settled in Berlin and worked as a literary critic and translator. His hopes of making an academic career were frustrated at the University of Frankfurt rejected his doctoral thesis, brilliant but esoteric study of German Baroque drama entitled The Birth of Tragedy German (1928). During the 1920's, Benjamin Marxist postulates assumed under the influence of composer Ernest Bloch and the Marxist critic György Lukács. He also made a close friendship with the German writer Bertolt Brecht, defending his concept of epic theater. " In 1933, following the Nazi rise to power, Benjamin took refuge in France, where he began writing a monumental work that failed to finish on Charles Baudelaire, published in 1973 under the title Charles Baudelaire: a lyric poet the era of big capitalism . The best-known works were his essays Benjamin The Author as Producer (1934), The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (1936) and Illuminations (1961). Are essays on literary and aesthetic issues from a Marxist point of view had a great influence on his time and are considered classics. In the first of which Benjamin claims that the rise of Fascism and mass society are symptoms of a degraded era in which art is only a source of gratification to be consumed, but could serve as a vehicle for the spread of communism and awareness and the masses. With the occupation of France by the Nazis In 1940 Benjamin tried to visit the United States through Spain, but being held at the Franco-English border himself. © eMe (The power of the word)
Why not Walter Benjamin has entered the public domain in Spain?
is very long, if you want, find out here ( click )
Why am I so interested in Walter Benjamin?
for several things. I love her figure, her culture, her work and, above all, because it makes me feel and think I do not know if that order, remember, learn, encouraged me to read, write, comment ...
The rest I put you, the reader, it's Friday and can not be one at all.
4,910,200 unemployed in Spain
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