Articles


Below, you will find links to the more cohesive, "finished" articles on The Arcades Project Project. I am currently in the process of upfitting these articles and uploading them to Blogger. The links below are to the original versions for the dissertation. Like Benjamin's own Arcades Project, some of these bits may be forever left unfinished....

1.     "The Structure of Awakening": Walter Benjamin and Progressive Scholarship in New Media (Site Introduction)


2.     Arcades: Walter Benjamin's The Arcades Project 


3.     Walter Benjamin's Notion of Gambling as "Presence of Mind"


4.     The Sustained Threshold in Walter Benjamin's The Arcades Project


5.     Charles Baudelaire's "A Une Passante" / "To A Passerby:


6.     Translating Zero: Dostoevsky's "The Gambler"


7.     Edgar Alan Poe's "The Man of the Crowd" and Illegibility


8.     Interiority/Exteriority: Henry David Thoreau's "Walking"


9.     The Wandering Type: Walt Whitman and the Flaneur Narrator


10.     Transcending Reptition?: Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons


11.     Passengers: John Dos Passos' Manhattan Transfer


12.     Weather, Sickness, and Henry Miller'sTropic Novels


13.     Baudrillard's Seduction and Walter Benjamin's Use of Gambling in The Arcades Project


14.     Traces: Sophie Calle's and Jean Baudrillard's Suite venitienne. Please Follow Me.


15.     Webs of Significance and DeLillo's The Body Artist


16.     The Flaneur as Narrator