File Management: Benjamin's Arcades meets the Internet →
There was a moment, possibly when I first began reading Lessig but more likely later, in San Francisco, when I was reading Benjamin in a deeper way, when the prospect of downloading a 1000-plus page version of the Arcades Project, for free, would have been genuinely titillating on multiple intellectual fronts. Now, frankly, it just feels like a pain in the ass. Nevertheless, I support the password-free existence of this document. So go, Frankfurt School fanboys and girls and people among you! Download! Bull clip away! (Or better yet: perfect bind at Kinko’s! Because if you are genuinely considering reading the Arcades Project in this manner, you are likely still in grad school and therefore tolerating the mere existence of that company BECAUSE YOU HAVE TO.) Oh! And if you’re reading it on a KindleNookiPadWhatever: Really? Benjamin?
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Download [PDF, 180 mb], no password
The Passagenwerk or Arcades Project was an unfinished lifelong project of philosopher Walter Benjamin, an enormous collection of writings on the city life of Paris in the 19th century, especially concerned with the iron-and-glass covered “arcades” (known…
