Tag: Walter Benjamin

• 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

• Fragmentary, No. 7

  In the age of pictorial reproduction the meaning of paintings is no longer attached to them; their meaning becomes transmittable: that is to say it becomes information of a sort, and, like all information, it is either put to use or ignored; information carries no special authority within itself. When a painting is put to…

  • R L • powell

  January 22, 2015

  Fragments, Image

  John Berger, Mechanical Reproduction, Rembrandt, The Nightwatch, Walter Benjamin, Ways of Seeing