Walter Benjamin and the Aesthetics of Change

1. Aesthetics of Change: An Introduction
Anca M. Pusca

2. Towards A Global Space of Democratic Rights: On Benjamin, Gramsci, and Polanyi
Renate Holub

3. Erasing the Traces, Tracing Erasures: Cultural Memory and Belonging in Newcastle/Gateshead, UK
Zoë Thompson

4. ‘Sunshine and Noir’: Benjamin, Kracauer and Roth Visit the ‘White Cities’
Graeme Gilloch

5. Liquidation and Shattering: Aesthetics and Politics in Cold Climates
Esther Leslie

6. Fashion and Its ‘Revolutions’ in Walter Benjamin’s Arcades
Petra Hroch

7. Proof of the Forgotten: A Benjaminian Reading of Daguerre’s Two Views of the Boulevard du Temple
Elizabeth Howie

8. Commodity Display and the Phantasmagoria of Modernity: Exploring Walter Benjamin’s Critique of History
Rolando Vázquez

9. The Aura of Art After the Advent of the Digital
Konstantinos Vassiliou

10. Towards a Benjaminist Political Economy
Claes Belfrage

11. Conclusion
Anca M. Pusca

Keywords: History, Social History, Popular Science in Education, Social Theory, Intellectual Studies, Cultural Studies, Cultural Anthropology