Benjamin's System of Coordinates (Second Baudelaire Essay)
- Title
- Benjamin's System of Coordinates (Second Baudelaire Essay)
- Description
- Granted, in Benjamin’s published works, we have only one example of an "idea” worked out explicitly as a system of coordinates, and it is a peripheral, insignificant one at that. It is found in the notes to the second Baudelaire essay, describing, not the armature of the essay in its entirety, but the conceptual positioning of a single motif, “idleness,” as one field within the general idea of physical activity.[From Benjamin's notes: "The schemata of coordinates have, in the optimal case, 11 concepts: 4 for the termini of the axes, four for the fields, two for the axes, one for the point of intersection."]
- Designer
- Buck-Morss, Susan
- Date
- 1989
- Source
- The Dialectics of Seeing
- Bibliographic Citation
- Buck-Morss, Susan. 1989. The Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project. The MIT Press. Display E. Pages 213-214.
- is composed of
- Cross/axis
- has attribute
- Solid Line
- use feature
- Brace
- depict things of type
- Typological or Classification
- Coverage
- body
- coordinates
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