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I also wrote something quick about CDG SS 2011, with fits included, in the CDG discussion thread.. It can't hurt to try to balance things out a little with such a dick-heavy board...
"To articulate what is past does not mean to recognize 'how it really was.'
It means to take control of a memory, as it flashes in a moment of danger."
-Walter Benjamin. Thesis VI, Theses on the Philosophy of History My rarities and quotidian garments for sale thread. My tumblr and eBay page.
BTW If you love Benjamin the current Klee retrospective at Beaubourg includes the two Klee monoprints he owned.
So good to know. He was impoverished for most of his adult life. What little he received here and there came exclusively from his father for the first half of his life and from Adorno in the second half.
I think some of us would have a fast rapport with Benjamin given how he chose to spend his money: on beloved books and prints.
What fabulous taste!
MBD
"To articulate what is past does not mean to recognize 'how it really was.'
It means to take control of a memory, as it flashes in a moment of danger."
-Walter Benjamin. Thesis VI, Theses on the Philosophy of History My rarities and quotidian garments for sale thread. My tumblr and eBay page.
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