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Walter Benjamin & Interior Decorating?! The Arcades Project & The Bourgeois Apartment

An awesome and insightful article from Drinking Upstream : Real clear thoughts on the philosophy of dwelling really got me thinking…

Shane Waggoner writes, “In The Arcades Project , Walter Benjamin described ‘traces’ of something primordial in the European bourgeois apartment, with its cloistered ornamentation and the way its blueprints and furnishings mimicked feudal fortification.” Walter Benjamin, in The Arcades Project, and Theodor Adorno, in Kierkegaard: Construction of the Aesthetic, described the 18th century middle-class European apartment as a prison-like interior.

I was about to protest until I tried a startling visual juxtaposition:

Benjamin’s Parisian Arcades and…

Eastern State Penitentiary!

Written by robin on 12/22/2008 in Blog | Book Review | Philosophy | Theory/Criticism | Walter Benjamin

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Interesting association... Walter was smart in presenting this paper, he probably wanted us to start researching for the truth. And here it is: 18th century middle-class European apartment as a prison-like interior.
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