Passages

Passages

Discuss the translation of The Arcades Project's title: Passagenwerk a title, that in German, emphasizes the threshold-like nature of the project and also plays on the term "passage" as in rites of passage or rituals that create the transition between states of existence. [SEE PASSAGE in GAMBLING chapter on ritual; see Baudrillard's seducer's strategy as the strategy of ritual as well as passages in the sense of excerpts taken from larger works.