Dialectical Images

Media and Consciousness in The Arcades Project of Walter Benjamin

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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1982-8160.v11i3p115-127

Keywords:

Media, consciousness, self, time, knowledge

Abstract

This paper aims at investigating the textual relations that link media and consciousness in The Arcades Project of Walter Benjamin. The paper builds-up a constellation of terms (history, nature, time, media, myth, habits, attention and distraction), a plot of motifs that composes an organic pattern and provide a problematic image of the self.

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Author Biography

  • Antonio Rafele, Centre d'Études sur l'Actuel et le QuotidienUniversité Paris Descartes La Sorbonne
    PhD in Sociology, researcher of Centre d’Études sur l’Actuel et le Quotidien (CEAQ) Université Paris Descartes La Sorbonne.

References

BENJAMIN, W. Passagens. Belo Horizonte: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais; São Paulo: Imprensa Oficial do Estado de São Paulo, 2007.

_______. A tarefa do tradutor. Tradução Maria Filomena Molder. [19--]. 13 p. Disponível em: <https://goo.gl/SRoZtj>. Acesso em: 10 nov. 2017.

KIERKEGAARD, S. O conceito de angústia. Tradução João Lopes Alves. Lisboa: Editora Presença 1962.

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Published

2017-12-27

Issue

Vol. 11 No. 3 (2017)

Section

Em Pauta/Agenda

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How to Cite

Rafele, A. (2017). Dialectical Images: Media and Consciousness in The Arcades Project of Walter Benjamin. MATRIZes, 11(3), 115-127. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1982-8160.v11i3p115-127