![]() ![]() Panels were arranged in front of the South and North walls so as to break up the texts and images, accentuating and modifying their content through the geometry of optics. Reading Walter Benjamins Passagen-Werk means confronting the obdurate question of. ![]() : Belknap Press Collection inlibrary printdisabled trentuniversity internetarchivebooks Digitizing sponsor Kahle/Austin Foundation Contributor Internet Archive Language English Volume 1999 xiv, 1073 p. I chose to illuminate the Southwest and Southeast walls because there were already 4 TVs on the Northwest and Northeast walls. The arcades project by Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940 Publication date 1999 Publisher Cambridge, MA. If the swiveling doors were aligned with the Northern corners, the East and West walls in the North studio would be illuminated. Published posthumously in 1999, The Arcades Project is an unfinished non-fiction book by German philosopher Walter Benjamin. If aligned in this manner, both sides of the doors became illuminated, as well as the East and West walls in the South studio. ![]() The swiveling doors adjoining the two rooms were aimed at the Southern corners. ![]() In the final configuration, the panels were arranged so that the four glass panels would align in a staggered fashion, connecting the two rooms in the same way the Parisian passages-arcades-connected otherwise separated parts of the city.īoth doors were left open during the exhibit so as to vary the order in which participants would experience the flow of text. ![]()
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