Paris as an American City
What happens when we understand the City of Lights as a medium for U.S. power abroad?
Walter Benjamin
Benjamin's "Work of Art" in the Age of Production
This post could also be called: Walter Benjamin in the Age of Me Noodling Around with Small Data.
Ultimate effacement
"The only recent photograph of him (taken many years ago) is of him wearing a furious face as he fends off an intruding cameraman."
Indeed. His name is J.D. Salinger, and now he's dead.
Concerning Street Life in the African City (2): Aspects of an Expressive Fragment
Allow me to take undue advantage of double vision and describe Oxford Street from the perspective of an erstwhile denizen of Accra as well as that of someone who has lived abroad for many years.