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The German-Jewish philosopher Walter Benjamin, a pioneer of cultural studies of memory and the philosophy of place, was one of the first to suggest that urban life increases feelings of isolation and atomization. Over the years, he wrote Denkbilder (“thought-images”), short texts that captured urban landscapes in which the city appears as a puzzle or mythical labyrinth: an impressionistic essay on Naples (1925), a portrait of the Soviet capital (1926–27), and a note entitled “Hashish in Marseille” (1932). But the central place in Benjamin’s constellation of cities is given to Berlin, where he grew up, and Paris, which briefly sheltered him from the Jewish pogroms. Written during the rise of Nazism (1932–38), the masterpiece of topographic hermeneutics Berlin Childhood became, in Adorno’s words, “an allegory for the decline of his own life” – it describes a city over which the shadows of the Third Reich fall. This study of the spatial model of memory and the dialectic of the irretrievable loss and salvation of the past, permeated with allusions to Greek myths, Dante, Shakespeare and Proust, became Berlin’s “search for the lost future”. In the essay “Paris, Capital of the Nineteenth Century” (1938), the philosopher reveals the genealogy of the capitalist myth that fetishizes consumption. Benjamin makes the flâneur, the phantasmagoric space of the department store and the phalanstery, in which “morality becomes superfluous”, the central images of his critique of modernity.
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