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 Paris
Capital of the Nineteenth Century (Exposé of 1939) |
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 Convolutes |
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Introduction
By
Peter N. Miller
"The subject of this book is an illusion expressed by Schopenhauer
in the following formula: to seize the essence of history, it
suffices to compare Herodotus and the morning newspaper..." |
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H. The Collector
By
Peter N. Miller
"Broken down matter: the elevation of the commodity to
the status of allegory."
"Allegories are in the realm of thoughts, what ruins are
in the realm of things..." |
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A. Fourier, or the Arcades
By
Gabriel Goldstein
"The realization of dream elements in the course of waking
up is the canon of dialectics. It is paradigmatic for the thinker
and binding for the historian..." |
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S. Painting, Jugendstil, Novelty
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John Gordon
"There has never been an epoch that did not feel itself
to be 'modern' in the sense of eccentric, and did not believe
itself to be standing directly before an abyss..." |
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B. Grandville,
or the World Exhibitions
By Elisa Niemack
"The trees will bring forth apple compotes,
And farmers will harvest boots and coats.
It will snow wine, it
will rain chickens,
And ducks cooked with turnips will fall from the sky..." |
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m. Idleness
By Elisa Niemack
"The authentic field of operations for the vivid chronicle
of what is happening is the documentary account of immediate
experience, reportage..." |
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C. Louis
Philippe, or the Interior
By
John Gordon
"To dwell" as a transitive verb-as in the notion of
"indwelt spaces"; herewith an indication of the frenetic
topicality concealed in habitual behavior. It has to do with
fashioning a shell for ourselves..." |
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D. Baudelaire,
or the Streets of Paris
By
Margaret Maile
"The Flaneur seeks refuge in the crowd. The crowd is the
veil through which the familiar city is transformed for the
flaneur into phantasmagoria..." |
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E. Haussmann,
or the Barricades
By
Peter N. Miller
"Haussmann gave himself the title of ‘demolition
artist’. He believed he had a vocation for his work, and
emphasizes this in his memoirs.." |
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Conclusion
By Peter N. Miller
"What are phenomena rescued from? Not only, and not in
the main, from the discredit and neglect into which they have
fallen, but from the catastrophe represented very often by their
enshrinement as heritage..." |
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