Iron construction: the physiognomy of the modern unconscious in Benjamin's Arcades Project
New Formations - ISSN 0950-2378
Volume 2004 Number 54
Iron construction: the physiognomy of the modern unconscious in Benjamin's Arcades Project
Virginia Liberatore pages -
Abstract
This article suggests dialectical imagining as the fundamental foundation for the concept of iron construction in Benjamin’s The Arcades Project. This is founded on an analysis of how iron construction began in nineteenth-century Paris and what the sources of modern iron construction actually are. Liberatore also explores the significance, to Benjamin’s work, of his understanding of objects’ relationship to their biographies, and how this is influenced by physiognomy.
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Virginia Liberatore (2004) Iron construction: the physiognomy of the modern unconscious in Benjamin's Arcades Project, New Formations, 2004(54), -