"History decays into images, not into stories." (476) It can't be helped but to see in Benjamin a certain 'post-modernism.' Perhaps because he understands his position in fore-history and after-history, he is unceasingly prescient of things-to-come.

(Benjamin, Walter. The Arcades Project. Trans. Howard Eiland and Kevin McLaughlin. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002. Print.)