Walter Benjamin

• [[person]]
  • [[philosopher]] [[marxist]]
• Wow, I can’t believe I hadn’t noded him until [[2020-12-04]]!
  • I [[like]] him. If he had a twitter account, I’d add him for sure.
• Died after crossing on foot to [[spain]] escaping from the [[nazis]] / [[vichy france]].
  • [[suicide]] in [[portbou]]
  • [[1940]]
• [[project]] [[arcades project]]
• [[essay]] [[the work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction]].
• [[essay]] [[the narrator]]
• wrote about consuming [[hashish]] in [[marseille]]

Walter Benjamin

Those who are able to face the looming reality can easily feel trapped. Walter Benjamin’s prescient metaphor of our being caught in a train without brakes—his image of “progress”1—comes easily to mind.

– [[Red-Green Revolution]]

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