Status Updates From Selected Writings, Volume 3...

aw I liked reading about his childhood in Berlin :’)

ngl this is becoming a drag. so far I’ve only really liked the technological reproducibility chapters

"It is inherent in the technology of film, as of sports, that everyone who witnesses these performances does so as a quasi-expert. Anyone who has listened to a group of newspaper boys leaning on their bicycles and discussing the outcome of a bicycle race will have an inkling of this."
lolz benjamin said u peasants always comment on things as if ur experts and u know what ... he's right !

Three essays into this gizmo & I'm totally awed by this guy! Overarching syncretizing intelligence: art, commoditization, architecture, archetypes, epochal dreams of bourgeois markets evolving through 19th century Paris: arcades, dept stores, high end gunk...upper middle class striving 2 b & 2 show as the merchants enjoy the freedom of post empire France...But then 2 an extraordinary review of Brecht's 3 Penny Novel!