![]() ![]() ![]() RSVP HERE (Please note that your RSVP is requested but not required).Ībout The Arcades Project: “To great writers,” Walter Benjamin once wrote, “finished works weigh lighter than those fragments on which they labor their entire lives.” Conceived in Paris in 1927 and still in progress when Benjamin fled the Occupation in 1940, The Arcades Project (in German, Das Passagen-Werk) is a monumental ruin, meticulously constructed over the course of thirteen years-“the theater,” as Benjamin called it, “of all my struggles and all my ideas. Presented in partnership with The Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory (3CT) Join us for a panel discussion celebrating the 20th anniversary of the publication of Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project and the new translation of his Origin of the German Trauerspiel, with Lindsay Waters, D. ![]()
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