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Walter Benjamin

In Our Time: Philosophy

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The Arcades, for Benjamin

The arcades represented kind of architectural manifestation of the ephemerality of modernity that benamin had become interested in through his readingsf of charles boudlair and boudlar's theory of modernity. They emerged in the 18 twenties and thirties, and most of them were demolished by the early 18 fifties. So not only did they contain things that were fading away, the old paris that was fading away, but as architecturalsu s, they themselves were sort of antiquated from the beginning. But at the same time, he says, this is also the coming of a dream. We're going to succumb, in a way, to the

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