A quick ask of Google brings up this, of great interest…
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2014/sep/25/walter-benjamins-angel-hitler/
Max
On Aug 28, 2015, at 19:05, Andrew Burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I have scads of Benjamin quotes, but no Benjamin book. Any recommendations?
> I'd like to buy one, or get a couple out of the library.
>
> When I was doing my PhD my super wouldn't let me use Walter B as he was
> 'too old'!! Annoying super ...
>
> Andrew
>
> On 29 August 2015 at 09:59, Jill Jones <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Ah, the Benjaminian angel!
>>
>> And also, a Benjaminian caesura, perhaps …
>>
>> J
>>
>> On 29/08/2015, at 2:49 AM, Douglas Barbour wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks Jill, Patrick, & Bill.
>>>
>>> 'that angel’ can be found in Benjamin, actually…
>>>
>>> Doug
>>> On Aug 28, 2015, at 2:46 AM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> angel = plane? Not that we're in the equation business.
>>>>
>>>> Like 'layer after layer of lives/sifted through time, Doug.
>>>>
>>>> cunning/conning loses me but hey.
>>>>
>>>> Bill
>>>>
>>>> On 28/08/2015, at 3:01 AM, Douglas Barbour wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> City of Clouds
>>>>>
>>>>> as any city might be
>>>>> seen through that angel’s eyes
>>>>>
>>>>> layer after layer of lives
>>>>> sifted through time
>>>>> s low cunning
>>>>> a con ning tower
>>>>> of epic song
>>>>>
>>>>> always in the wrong key
>>>>> to the cities
>>>>> buried below
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Douglas Barbour
>>>>> [log in to unmask]
>>>>>
>>>>> Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations &
>> Continuation 2 (UofAPress).
>>>>> Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
>>>>>
>>>>> Done in by creation itself.
>>>>>
>>>>> I mean the gods. Not us. Well us too.
>>>>> The gods moved into books. Who wrote the books?
>>>>> We wrote the books. In whose dream, then are we dreaming?
>>>>>
>>>>> Robert Kroetsch.
>>>>>
>>>
>>> Douglas Barbour
>>> [log in to unmask]
>>>
>>> Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuation
>> 2 (UofAPress).
>>> Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
>>>
>>> Done in by creation itself.
>>>
>>> I mean the gods. Not us. Well us too.
>>> The gods moved into books. Who wrote the books?
>>> We wrote the books. In whose dream, then are we dreaming?
>>>
>>> Robert Kroetsch.
>>
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