""Perhaps the mingling of the forgotten with the dust of our vanished dwellings is the secret of its survival,"" writes Benjamin in his beautiful book about the small ...

R.I.P., Walter Benjamin, you (probably) would have hated the new iPad. A viral ad for the “thinnest product [Apple] ever created” shows an industrial hydraulic press squishing musical instruments, ...

The appearance of this volume marks the completion of a grand project, bringing a fully representative set of texts by German critic Benjamin (1892–1940) into English; volume 4 joins the first three ...

When you destroyed a torturable body. It has been frequently noted that 1990 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the fall of continental Europe to Fascism. In the midst of this remembrance the mass ...

“Art is subjective” is a tired cliché, often used in bad faith to deflect criticism or avoid conversation. In reality, there are many objective metrics that are used to describe art, such as color ...