Tag: Angelus Novus

• Fragmentary, No. 11

  My wing is ready for flight, I would like to turn back. If I stayed everliving time, I’d still have little luck. —Gerhard Scholem, “Greetings from the Angelus” There is a picture by Klee called Angelus Novus. It shows an angel who seems about to move away from something he stares at. His eyes are wide, […]

  • R L • powell

  September 23, 2016

  Academia, Books, Fragments

  Angelus Novus, catastrophe, history, progress, Walter Benjamin