Benjamin's
Theory of Quotation
Volume I of Walter Benjamin Selected Writings. The theory of simply collecting quotations--creating a constellation of meaning by picking through scholarly refuse....
Connect literary fragment--or passage--to material costs of book production--with hypermedia, we are no longer limited by our resources to a certain number of pages--thus, quotation can be supplanted by the disseminationof libraries in completed form. How does this change scholarship--when the entire text becomes available...what does it do to the role of the critic? As s/he is no longer the one with access to the texts--as all texts become available to everyone all the time. What effect will this have on scholars' credibility? relevance?
Connect literary fragment--or passage--to material costs of book production--with hypermedia, we are no longer limited by our resources to a certain number of pages--thus, quotation can be supplanted by the disseminationof libraries in completed form. How does this change scholarship--when the entire text becomes available...what does it do to the role of the critic? As s/he is no longer the one with access to the texts--as all texts become available to everyone all the time. What effect will this have on scholars' credibility? relevance?
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