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Walter Benjamin, politics, and bodily collectivity: from Leib and Körper to anthropological materialism by Jesien, Karolina

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Das Denken der Lehre: Walter Benjamin, Franz Joseph Molitor and the Jewish tradition by Mertens, Bram

“…This thesis is a dialectical exploration of the importance of the Jewish tradition and theology in the work of Walter Benjamin, primarily through his reading of Franz Joseph Molitor's Philosophie der Geschichte oder über die Tradition, and secondarily through his close friendship with Gershom Scholem. …”
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The 'right' side of the law: state of siege and the rise of fascism in interwar Romania by Cercel, Cosmin Sebastian

Subjects: “…Giorgio Agamben; Walter Benjamin; fascism; law; Romania; state of exception; state of siege; violence…”
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Language, identity, and translation in J. M. Synge’s The Playboy of the Western World by Chang, Hawk

“…By reading Synge’s The Playboy of the Western World, the translated versions of the play from English to Chinese, and translation theories by Eugene Nida and Walter Benjamin, this paper discusses Synge’s Irish identity via the lens of language and translation. …”
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An art novel for the age of mechanical reproduction: Blaise Cendrars's Dan Yack by Shingler, Katherine

“…This pessimism about art is also brought out through the novel's intertexts, which insist on the dangers and limits of artistic creation. Drawing on Walter Benjamin, the article suggests that this pessimism may be tempered somewhat (though certainly not eliminated), since Cendrars's text itself provides a model of an art that works to make the impoverished experience of modern life meaningful by relating it to tradition.…”
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Malaysian Tamils and transnational Tamil cinema : diasporic identities, 'Crisis Heterotopia' and 'Aura' / Gopalan Ravindran by Ravindran, Gopalan

“…This paper employs the notions of Michel Foucault and Walter Benjamin to examine the negotiations of identities by Malaysian Tamils in the sites constructed by transnational Tamil cinema.…”
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Post-apocalyptic Dystopian Fiction: A Comparative Study Of Messianic Figures In Cormac Mccarthy’s The Road And Ahmad Sadaawi’s Frankenstein In Baghdad by Abedalqader, Rahma Mohammad Ahmad

“…To achieve this basic objective, a comparative cultural approach is followed to analyze Cormac McCarthy’s The Road and Ahmad Sadaawi’s Frankenstein in Baghdad, employing Walter Benjamin’s historical materialism theory and Jacques Derrida’s poststructuralism philosophical views on indeterminate messianic figures and messianic structures.…”
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Diverse Stills: Picturing the Landscape by Gray, Michael, Nathan, Tony, Tolonen, Juha

“…The work also promotes discussion on aspects of Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s (1945) ‘indeterminate vision’ and Walter Benjamin’s (1936) ‘optical unconscious’ whilst bringing the two together. …”
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Dematerialised data and human desire: the Internet and copy culture by Allen, Matthew

“…I will then argue that the Internet produces an interaction between dematerialised, digital data and human subjectivity and desire that fundamentally challenges notions of originality and copy. Walter Benjamin noted about photography: "one can make any number of prints [from a negative]; to ask for the 'authentic' print makes no sense" [4 p.224]. …”
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Suicide-authors: a deconstructive study by Loman, Lilia

“…In Chapter Two, the study of memorial texts will be developed in conjunction with analysis of selected examples, such as Yukio Mishima, Mario de Sa-Carneiro, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Sergei Esenin, Raymond Roussel, Walter Benjamin, Anne Sexton, and Virginia Woolf. …”
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Process of capital/process of labour: cryptotheologies of judgement, time and nature in the dominant economics/economy by Piotrowski, Mateusz Aleksander

“…A theological analysis exposes the dominant economics/economy as an instance of ‘law’ understood (after saint Paul Franz Kafka and Walter Benjamin) as a process engaging the subject into an infinite endeavour of justifying oneself by one’s own works. …”
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90 miles of mirror: Reimagining cultural memory through the case of Cuban-American migrants in Miami by van de Voort, Sjamme

“…What follows is an investigation of how these tropes are operationalised in mass media during the Mariel Crisis – a time in which the Cuban state finds itself in what Walter Benjamin determines as a moment of danger. Finally, the investigation of oral history interviews shows how Cuban-Americans envision their past, present and future based on the narrative emplotment of accounts of history as well as the spatial environment that frames cultural memory.…”
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Beneath the pavement by Messham-Muir, Kit

“…Debord’s derive is a radical fragmentation of the nineteenth century Parisian flaneur, the uninvolved bourgeois stroller, made popular in archjtecture and urban planning through the work of twentieth-century thinker, Walter Benjamin. Unlike the flaneur’s stroll, the derive cuts across the arterial lines that ordinarily link the organs of the urban corpus. …”
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Selling Japan In Mad Men's Postmodern America: The Visual Translation Of Japanese Icons And Images Through A Lens Of Western Advertising And Aesthetics by Brown, Paris

“…An examination of her influence—contextualised vis-à-vis the television drama Mad Men, films like Lost in Translation, and Walter Benjamin's aesthetic aura—sets the stage for determining the extent of fetishism still present in contemporary American society. …”
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The Architecture of Fear: Discourses of spatiality and violence in American Psycho and Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis by Collins, Michael J

“…I will be exploring EllisÃ�Â�Ã�¢Ã�Â�Ã�Â�Ã�Â�Ã�Â�s work in relation to Michel FoucaultÃ�Â�Ã�¢Ã�Â�Ã�Â�Ã�Â�Ã�Â�s use of architecture as social control in Discipline and Punish, Guy Debord and the SituationistsÃ�Â�Ã�¢Ã�Â�Ã�Â�Ã�Â�Ã�Â� fusion of spatiality, aesthetics and market capitalism addressed in publications such as the Internationale Situationiste and Walter BenjaminÃ�Â�Ã�¢Ã�Â�Ã�Â�Ã�Â�Ã�Â�s romantic anti-capitalism and Ã�Â�Ã�¢Ã�Â�Ã�Â�Ã�Â�Ã�Â�dialectics of seeing.Ã�Â�Ã�¢Ã�Â�Ã�Â�Ã�Â�Ã�Â� In my readings of American Psycho and Lunar Park I will also demonstrate how violence in Bret Easton EllisÃ�Â�Ã�¢Ã�Â�Ã�Â�Ã�Â�Ã�Â�s fiction is figured in terms inseparable from, and dominated by, spatial discourse and is used to reinforce his literary analysis of urban, and suburban space in these two novels, respectively. …”
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Fairy tales and allegory of Malay(si)an Chinese literature in the early stage of the cold war (1946-1965) by Chiang, Lee Kwun

“…This article will apply the theories of Walter Benjamin, Terry Eagleton as well as Fredic Jameson, to observe and discuss the following three aspects: Firstly, in what form did the postwar Mahua Children’s Literature mainly appear? …”
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