#benjamin walters

[richardarmitagefanpage]

Happy 2 Years since Obsession first aired! 🎉

📷: moonagepictures

[similefaye]

"Matt Murdock in a love triangle" is actually a crime and so reductive to his character, they did not have Dex giving Matt fuck-me-eyes as Matt pulled his hair for that

They did not have Foggy haunting the narrative all season long and Matt kissing his card for that

We also did not have Matt attending a family barbeque with Jennifer's family for that

And Elektra is already planned to come back according to the showrunners and we know she'll literally burn NYC to the ground to get to Matt

Please that man is a whore, restricting him to a heteronormative love triangle is removing flavor from him and that cannot happen, writers be serious. We want to see that man have insane tension with everybody and anybody that moves

[whoops-im-obsessed]

'radar was like hawkeye's kid' 'radar was like hawkeye's little brother' WRONG radar was the younger cousin who followed hawkeye and trapper around at the family gathering and they made him do loads of weird shit bc he just fully trusted whatever they said and it was funny as fuck

[univemma]

Wilson Fisk every time Matt fucks him over

[obsessioncollector]

Banner displayed at the student protests for Palestine at the University of Toronto, posted by assistant professor Esmat Elhalaby on Twitter. The central figure on the bannet is an imitation of Paul Klee's Angelus Novus, famously discussed in Walter Benjamin's Theses on the Philosophy of History. The accompanying text— reading "The only thing in the world worth beginning... the end of the world, of course!"—is from Aimé Césaire's Notebook of a Return to the Native Land.

You can read the Benjamin essay and see the original Klee work here. PDF of the Césaire book here.

[titusandronicusonice]

I’m happy everyone’s enjoying the Brecht-Benjamin posting. here’s a photo of them playing chess:

And one of Benjamin’s diary entries recounting a comment Brecht had made about chess:

From ‘Conversations with Brecht’ in Aesthetics and Politics (1977)

[dyingroses]

M*A*S*H Monday!

[vesperalities]

currently working on an essay on walter benjamin's the work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction.

[letterful]

see, the thing is — some of us don’t actually consider words like ‘flaneur’ to be overly complicated in the first place. on account of being, in fact, somewhat smart.

[jareckiworld]

Emilio Tadini (1927-2002) — Angelus Novus [enamel on canvas, 1978]

[guerrillatech]

"Fascism attempts to organize the newly proletarianized masses without affecting the property structure which the masses strive to eliminate. Fascism sees its salvation in giving these masses not their right, but instead a chance to express themselves. The masses have a right to change property relations; Fascism seeks to give them an expression while preserving property. The logical result of Fascism is the introduction of aesthetics into political life. Mankind, which in Homer’s time was a spectacle for the Olympian gods, has become one for itself. Communism responds by politicizing art." — Walter Benjamin

[toreadtoday]

from illuminations by walter benjamin

[weil-weil-lautre]

Nothing is sillier, dryer, more emasculated, more castrated than current American academic writing on the Frankfurt school by people who have never heard a mob in a street, who have never smelled a prison, who have never known what a concentration camp is, who don't know one single thing about the fact that these men lived their abstractions in bone and blood and gut and tripe, that they lived their century as our slick mandarins don't. These American discussions about the nuances of meaning in the sociology of the middle Adorno are hair-raising. They would have filled Adorno with sarcasm and wonder and a sense of defeat.

George Steiner, Paris Review interview

[nobeerreviews]

Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance - nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city - as one loses oneself in a forest - that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

-- Walter Benjamin

(Lyon, France)

[titusandronicusonice]

Benjamin’s account of catching butterflies and moths in his youth summarises so well the motivations behind his writing:

Between us, now, the old law of the hunt took hold: the more I strove to conform, in all the fibers of my being, to the animal—the more butterfly-like I became in my heart and soul—the more this butterfly itself, in everything it did, took on the color of human volition; and in the end, it was as if its capture was the price I had to pay to regain my human existence.

Walter Benjamin, Berlin Childhood around 1900

[dyingroses]

M*A*S*H + AO3 tags