[Illustration fr. photograph by Walter Benjamin's friend, GISÈLE FREUND. Courtesy Agence Nina Beskow, Paris.]
"The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the 'state of emergency' in which we live is not the exception but the rule. We must attain to a conception of history that is in keeping with this insight. Then we shall clearly realize that it is our task to bring about a real state of emergency, and this will improve our position in the struggle against Fascism. One reason why Fascism has a chance is that in the name of progress its opponents treat it as a historical norm. The current amazement that the things we are experiencing are 'still' possible in the twentieth century is not philosophical. This amazement is not the beginning of knowledge--unless it is the knowledge that the view of history which gives rise to it is untenable."
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Walter Benjamin
July 15, 1892 - September 26, 1940
The Walter Benjamin Research Syndicate is an on-line research resource for individuals interested in the writings and the ongoing critical theory of Walter Benjamin (1892-1940).
This site maintains a collection of resource information on some of Benjamin's writings, as well as current essays about Benjamin, his work, and the work of some of his close contemporaries. Our focus has been on those writings and projects too-often excluded from academic Benjamin scholarship.
Edited by Scott J. Thompson & Co-edited by Christopher Rollason
[Site updated April 26 - May 15, 2008]
The Task of Walter Benjamin's Translators:
by Christopher Rollason
Latest Issue of Transformations on Walter Benjamin
http://www.transformationsjournal.org/TEST/journal/issue_15/editorial.shtml
THE ARCHITECTURE OF A MANUSCRIPT
By Álvaro Cuadra
[REVIEW: Philippe SIMAY (ed.), Capitales de la modernité. Walter Benjamin et la ville. Paris. Éditions de l'Éclat. 2005]
LAS ARQUITECTURAS DE UNA ESCRITURA
Por Álvaro Cuadra
[RESEÑA: Philippe SIMAY (ed.), Capitales de la modernité. Walter Benjamin et la ville. Paris. Éditions de l'Éclat. 2005]
Gershom Scholem
"Tselem: The Representation of the Astral Body"
translated by Scott J. Thompson (1987)
Ceci n'est pas une pipe à opium
Wie Kommissar Maigret: Walter Benjamins Experimente
Von Lorenz Jäger
[review of WB, Gesammelte Briefe, III/ IV](auf deutsch)
Walter Benjamin Archive- Bilder, Texte und Zeichen
by Elisa Santucci
[November 2006]
by Elisa Santucci
[May 1, 2007]
en la época de su hiperreproducibilidad digital
Dr. Álvaro Cuadra R. SANTIAGO CHILE (2007)
Walter Benjamin on Martin Heidegger #1:
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Walter Benjamin to Gerhard (Gershom) Scholem:
Munich
November 11, 1916
Dear Mr. Scholem,
I am very grateful that you supplied me with the information so quickly. A week ago I began a letter to you that ended up being eighteen pages long. ...
...An essay (originally held as a lecture when he received the venia legendi in Freiburg*) on "Das Problem der historischen Zeit" [The Problem of Historical Time] has appeared in the last or next to last issue of the Zeitschrift für Philosophie und philosophische Kritik, and documents precisely how this subject should not be treated. An awful piece of work, which you might, however, want to glance at, if only to confirm my suspicion, i.e. that not only what the author says about historical time (and which I am able to judge) is nonsense, but that his statements on mechanical time are, as I suspect, also askew. ..."
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* Martin Heidegger's inaugural lecture, July 27, 1915.
[From The Correspondence of Walter Benjamin, 1910-1940, edited & annotated by Gershom Scholem & Theodor W. Adorno, trans. by M.R. & E.M. Jacobson, Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1994, 81-83.]
(Basado en un caso real)
by Ana Valentina Benjamin
(Based on a true story)
by Ana Valentina Benjamin
translated by
Christopher Rollason
INTRODUCTION TO N 7a, 7 BY WALTER BENJAMIN
by Elisa Santucci (2005)
Sobre la temporalidad de la cita en Walter Benjamin
y la (in)temporalidad de lo inconciente en Sigmund Freud
(Tesis para optar al Grado de Licenciado en Psicología)
Alumno: Diego Fernández H.
Profesor Patrocinante: Adriana Kaulino
FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS HUMANAS Y EDUCACION/ ESCUELA DE PSICOLOGIA
SANTIAGO CHILE (2005)
The Intertwining of Remembering & Forgetting
Amresh Sinha
[New Pages: Aug. 8, 2005]
Adorno on Mimesis in Aesthetic Theory
Amresh Sinha
[New Pages: Aug. 8, 2005]
From Berlin Bohemia to Hitler: The Weimar Republic's Crisis Democracy & The Emergence of German Fascism Spring Semester 2005: New College of California Instructor: Scott J. Thompson |
Portbou and Walter Benjamin
by Christopher Rollason, Ph.D., Metz, France
Book Review of
Esther Leslie's
Hollywood Flatlands: Animation, Critical Theory and the Avant-Garde
by CHRISTOPHER ROLLASON
Globalisation and Particularism in the Work of José Saramago:
the Symbolism of the Shopping-Mall in A Caverna
by CHRISTOPHER ROLLASON
Translations of Works by
Walter Benjamin
- English translation of Walter Benjamin's On Hashish [1927-1934] and
- Myslowitz-Braunschweig-Marseilles: [1930] trans. by S.J.Thompson (1996)
- Sobre La Perception: Spanish Translation of Benjamin's "Über die Wahrnehmung," ["On Perception"](Gesammelte Schriften, Bd VI, Suhrkamp Verlag. Frankfurt a. M. 1986, S. 33 - 38. ) Translated by Omar Rosas (Bogata, Colombia)
Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project and Contemporary Cultural Debate in the West
by CHRISTOPHER ROLLASON
Research Resources:
- Walter Benjamin: Some Biographical Fragments by Lloyd Spencer (Trinity and All Saints College, U.K.)
- Walter Benjamin: a Chronology by S.J. Thompson
- Walter Benjamin Bibliography: Catalogue of WB Resources in the Library of the Walter Benjamin Research Syndicate. [compiled by S.J.Thompson]
- Benjamin as Germanist: Walter Benjamin as a Critic of German Literature: A Bibliography by S.J.Thompson
Articles, Essays, Reports:
- Aura-l by Lewis Keir Johnson (Sabancy´ Üniversitesi, Istanbul)
- Birds are the Elections' Observers, No Moribund Imperial Eagle: On the Gießen 'Convolute' of Walter Benjamin's Literary Estate by Günter Oesterle & Harald Tausch [trans. by S.J.Thompson]
- Walter Benjamin, Ambling Through the City of a Mind by Jacob Voorthuis (Caribbean School of Architecture, Kingston, Jamaica)
- A participant's critical evaluation of the 1st annual International Walter Benjamin Congress 1997: "Perception & Experience in Modernity" by S.J.Thompson
Walter Benjamin Conference in Barcelona,
September 25-27 2000
Report by Esther Leslie
Walter Benjamin's Work in
Experimental Psychopathology
- Hashish in Berlin: An Introduction to Walter Benjamin's Uncompleted Book on Hashish by S.J.Thompson
- From 'Rausch' To Rebellion: Walter Benjamin and the Aesthetic Dimensions of Prohibitionist Realism by S.J.Thompson
- Benjamin on Hashish: A Source Guide by S.J.Thompson
- Walter Benjamin's Hashish Experimentation: Remarks from Selected Secondary Literature [compiled by S.J.Thompson]
- Selections from the Anti-war journal, DER AUFBRUCH [The Awakening](1915), with contributions from Gustav Landauer, Bernhard Reichenbach, Rudolf Leonhard, Kurt Hiller and others. Trans. by S.J. Thompson. [Auf Deutsch/English]
- Also translated documents & monographs by Joël & Fränkel, bibliography, & related links
- Walter Benjamin, Dr. Ernst Joël & Hashish by S.J.Thompson
Online Catalogue of the WBRS Library
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