 | Richard Peet, Professor Nigel Thrift - 1989 - 406 pages
...notably photography and film. Berger is here echoing Benjamin. In an essay of 1936 Benjamin recalled how 'our taverns and our metropolitan streets, our offices...railroad stations and our factories appeared to have locked us up hopelessly. Then came the film and burst this prison-world asunder' and through such techniques... | |
 | Susan Buck-Morss - 1991 - 512 pages
...contrary, in its technological reproduction of collective dream spaces, film provides the opposite effiect: "Our taverns and our metropolitan streets, our offices...railroad stations and our factories appeared to have locked us up hopelessly. Then came the film and burst this prison-world asunder by the dynamite of... | |
 | Bill Nichols - 1991 - 340 pages
...our lives; on the other hand, it manages to assure us of an immense and unexpected field of action. Our taverns and our metropolitan streets, our offices...far-flung ruins and debris, we calmly and adventurously go travelling.20 The history of intellectual montage — and the larger goal of political reflexivity... | |
 | Miriam Hansen - 1994 - 396 pages
...up beyond hope Then came film and exploded this prison-world with the dynamite of one-tenth seconds, so that now, in the midst of its far-flung ruins and debris, we calmly embark on adventurous travels."5i Revealing the "natural" appearance of the capitalist everyday as... | |
 | Eduardo González - 1992 - 336 pages
...be argued that Benjamin upholds an explosively antispatial sense of film and of filmic environment: Our taverns and our metropolitan streets, our offices...the tenth of a second, so that now, in the midst of the far-flung ruins and debris, we calmly and adventurously go traveling. (236) Such would be the landscape... | |
 | Fer, Francis Haskell, Briony Fer, David Batchelor, Paul Wood - 1993 - 354 pages
...culture (Plate 150). Again echoing Weber's metaphor of the 'iron cage' of modernity, Benjamin wrote: Our taverns and our metropolitan streets, our offices...burst this prison-world asunder by the dynamite of the length of a second, so that now, in the midst of its far-flung ruins and debris, we calmly and adventurously... | |
 | Michael T. Taussig - 1993 - 324 pages
...reality, also notes in the same breath that film "burst our prison world asunder by the dynamite of a tenth of a second, so that now, in the midst of its...far-flung ruins and debris, we calmly and adventurously go travelling."18 And it is here, in this transgressed yet strangely calm new space of debris, that a... | |
 | Stuart C. Aitken, Leo Zonn - 1994 - 284 pages
...as spatial.24 An example Benjamin cites illustrates the consequences for understanding social space: Our taverns and our metropolitan streets, our offices...far-flung ruins and debris, we calmly and adventurously go traveling.25 The dynamite of the tenth of a second (today's technology would make that 124th of a second),... | |
 | Judith Reesa Baskin - 1994 - 388 pages
...immense power to destroy conventional worlds and recover worlds that were unknown and unseen to us: "Then came the film and burst this prison-world asunder...far-flung ruins and debris, we calmly and adventurously go traveling. With the close-up, space expands; with slow motion, movement is extended. The enlargement... | |
 | Linda Williams - 1995 - 308 pages
...4. Anne Friedberg Cinema and the Postmodern Condition Our taverns and our metropolitan streets, out offices and furnished rooms, our railroad stations...far-flung ruins and debris, we calmly and adventurously go travelling.1 (Emphasis added.) In this well-traveled "passage," from Benjamin's now-canonical essay... | |
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Our taverns and our metropolitan streets, our offices and furnished rooms, our railroad stations and our factories appeared to have us locked up hopelessly. Then came the film and burst this prison-world asunder by the dynamite of the tenth of a second,... 
