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Consider: the washing machine seems like a useful piece of technology. But to what extent does it increase efficiency, and to what degree j...

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Consider The Rocketeer in relation to steampunk.

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This in a blog post by Sean D. Kelley: " But there is another option available. Perhaps Nietzsche was wrong about how long it would ta...

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"A practice of the order constructed by others redistributes its space; it creates at least a certain play in that order, a space for m...

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"Film: unfolding of all the forms of perception, the tempos and rhythms, which lie preformed in today's machines, such that all pr...

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"Task of childhood: to bring the new world into symbolic space. The child, in fact, can do what the grownup absolutely cannot: recogni...

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"Awakening as a graduated process that goes on in the life of the individual as in the life of generations. Sleep is its initial stage...

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"On the theory of the trace. Practice is eliminated from the productive process by machinery. In the process of administration, somet...

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"Threshold magic. At the entrance to the skating park, to the pub, to the tennis court, to resort locations: penates . The hen that la...

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Paul Morand: "With individuals as with societies, the need to accumulate is one of the signs of approaching death." (qtd. p. 208) ...

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"What is decisive in collecting is that the object is detached from all its original functions in order to enter into the closest conce...

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"We are bored when we don't know what we are waiting for. That we do know, or think we know, is nearly always the expression of ou...

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"With the appearance of mass-produced articles, the concept of specialty arises. Its relation to the concept of originality remains to ...

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"The events surrounding the historian, and in which he himself takes part, will underlie his presentation in the form of a text written...

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"History decays into images, not into stories." (476) It can't be helped but to see in Benjamin a certain 'post-modernism....

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"The fore- and after-history of a historical phenomenon show up in the phenomenon itself on the strength of its dialectical presentatio...

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"It is the peculiarity of technological forms of production (as opposed to art forms) that their progress and their success are proport...

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"Only a thoughtless observer can deny that correspondences come into play between the world of modern technology and the archaic symbol...

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"It is very easy to establish oppositions, according to determinate points of view, within the various 'fields' of any epoch, s...

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"The pathos of this work: there are no periods of decline." (458) So, too, must the suburbs be considered, not in their decline, b...