W. Benjamin walks and writes in bed through Berlin: An anti-dramatic reading in three acts
W. Benjamin walks and writes in bed through Berlin: An anti-dramatic reading in three acts
Antifascist theatre
W. Benjamin walks and writes in bed through Berlin: An anti-dramatic reading in three acts
Urban Room | Intensive Places in Dessau
Publics | Places in Europe
HighLow in Busan
SeaNear in Larnaca
WaterTourism in Ljubljana
Cardiff Interdisciplinary Research on Antifascism and the Far right (CIRAF)
Worldwide Antifascism Research Network
Violence of Integration: Forging alliances for diverse cities
Politics of Urban Design
Borderspaces
Cities
Urban Design Thinkers
Urban Theory Provocations
Autumn Design Studio
Narrative Environments
Architecture Lecture Series
Design Studio
City Design: Research Studio
Cities by Design
Drawing the queer antifascist city
Micro-antifascism and the politics of feeling
W. Benjamin walks and writes in bed through Berlin
Antifascism as a liberatory spatial practice
Urban guerilla and revolutionary antifascism
Drawing queer lines
Antifascism as a city map
Nonrepresentational urban drawing
The post-race city and non-racial urban imaginaries
Urban imaginaries and authoritarian urbanism
Fascism and urban violence
The aesthetic regime of fascist thought and desires
Spiral movement: How to write with fascism?
5G and urban aesthetics
Fascism - Urbanism - Aesthetics
Aestheticising and beautifying: Benjamin and/versus Rancière
The post-race city: Borders, freedom and imagination
Drawing a 'revolutionary we': Queer antifascist lines for universal liberation
Revolutionärer Antifaschismus als Stadtplan: Gewalträume, Freiräume und Traumräume
Aestheticizing the beautiful city: Democratic politics and design review
Avenue of atrocities
Spiral movement: Writing with fascism and urban violence
Materiality, race and speculative aesthetics
Drawing as an ethico-political practice
Ruined skylines: Aesthetics, politics and London's towering cityscape
Thinking against heritage: Speculative development and emancipatory politics in the City of London
Wrecking London's skyline? A political critique of how the City is viewed
Visual consequences of the plan: Managing London's changing skyline
Skylines and the 'whole' city
Elevations, icons and lines: The city abstracted through is skylines
Antifascist theatre
W. Benjamin walks and writes in bed through Berlin: An anti-dramatic reading in three acts
Urban Room | Intensive Places in Dessau
Publics | Places in Europe
HighLow in Busan
SeaNear in Larnaca
WaterTourism in Ljubljana
Cardiff Interdisciplinary Research on Antifascism and the Far right (CIRAF)
Worldwide Antifascism Research Network
Violence of Integration: Forging alliances for diverse cities
Politics of Urban Design
Borderspaces
Cities
Urban Design Thinkers
Urban Theory Provocations
Autumn Design Studio
Narrative Environments
Architecture Lecture Series
Design Studio
City Design: Research Studio
Cities by Design
Drawing the queer antifascist city
Micro-antifascism and the politics of feeling
W. Benjamin walks and writes in bed through Berlin
Antifascism as a liberatory spatial practice
Urban guerilla and revolutionary antifascism
Drawing queer lines
Antifascism as a city map
Nonrepresentational urban drawing
The post-race city and non-racial urban imaginaries
Urban imaginaries and authoritarian urbanism
Fascism and urban violence
The aesthetic regime of fascist thought and desires
Spiral movement: How to write with fascism?
5G and urban aesthetics
Fascism - Urbanism - Aesthetics
Aestheticising and beautifying: Benjamin and/versus Rancière
The post-race city: Borders, freedom and imagination
Drawing a 'revolutionary we': Queer antifascist lines for universal liberation
Revolutionärer Antifaschismus als Stadtplan: Gewalträume, Freiräume und Traumräume
Aestheticizing the beautiful city: Democratic politics and design review
Avenue of atrocities
Spiral movement: Writing with fascism and urban violence
Materiality, race and speculative aesthetics
Drawing as an ethico-political practice
Ruined skylines: Aesthetics, politics and London's towering cityscape
Thinking against heritage: Speculative development and emancipatory politics in the City of London
Wrecking London's skyline? A political critique of how the City is viewed
Visual consequences of the plan: Managing London's changing skyline
Skylines and the 'whole' city
Elevations, icons and lines: The city abstracted through is skylines
Antifascist theatre
W. Benjamin walks and writes in bed through Berlin: An anti-dramatic reading in three acts
Urban Room | Intensive Places in Dessau
Publics | Places in Europe
HighLow in Busan
SeaNear in Larnaca
WaterTourism in Ljubljana
Cardiff Interdisciplinary Research on Antifascism and the Far right (CIRAF)
Worldwide Antifascism Research Network
Violence of Integration: Forging alliances for diverse cities
Politics of Urban Design
Borderspaces
Cities
Urban Design Thinkers
Urban Theory Provocations
Autumn Design Studio
Narrative Environments
Architecture Lecture Series
Design Studio
City Design: Research Studio
Cities by Design
Drawing the queer antifascist city
Micro-antifascism and the politics of feeling
W. Benjamin walks and writes in bed through Berlin
Antifascism as a liberatory spatial practice
Urban guerilla and revolutionary antifascism
Drawing queer lines
Antifascism as a city map
Nonrepresentational urban drawing
The post-race city and non-racial urban imaginaries
Urban imaginaries and authoritarian urbanism
Fascism and urban violence
The aesthetic regime of fascist thought and desires
Spiral movement: How to write with fascism?
5G and urban aesthetics
Fascism - Urbanism - Aesthetics
Aestheticising and beautifying: Benjamin and/versus Rancière
The post-race city: Borders, freedom and imagination
Drawing a 'revolutionary we': Queer antifascist lines for universal liberation
Revolutionärer Antifaschismus als Stadtplan: Gewalträume, Freiräume und Traumräume
Aestheticizing the beautiful city: Democratic politics and design review
Avenue of atrocities
Spiral movement: Writing with fascism and urban violence
Materiality, race and speculative aesthetics
Drawing as an ethico-political practice
Ruined skylines: Aesthetics, politics and London's towering cityscape
Thinking against heritage: Speculative development and emancipatory politics in the City of London
Wrecking London's skyline? A political critique of how the City is viewed
Visual consequences of the plan: Managing London's changing skyline
Skylines and the 'whole' city
Elevations, icons and lines: The city abstracted through is skylines
Antifascist theatre
W. Benjamin walks and writes in bed through Berlin: An anti-dramatic reading in three acts
Urban Room | Intensive Places in Dessau
Publics | Places in Europe
HighLow in Busan
SeaNear in Larnaca
WaterTourism in Ljubljana
Cardiff Interdisciplinary Research on Antifascism and the Far right (CIRAF)
Worldwide Antifascism Research Network
Violence of Integration: Forging alliances for diverse cities
Politics of Urban Design
Borderspaces
Cities
Urban Design Thinkers
Urban Theory Provocations
Autumn Design Studio
Narrative Environments
Architecture Lecture Series
Design Studio
City Design: Research Studio
Cities by Design
Drawing the queer antifascist city
Micro-antifascism and the politics of feeling
W. Benjamin walks and writes in bed through Berlin
Antifascism as a liberatory spatial practice
Urban guerilla and revolutionary antifascism
Drawing queer lines
Antifascism as a city map
Nonrepresentational urban drawing
The post-race city and non-racial urban imaginaries
Urban imaginaries and authoritarian urbanism
Fascism and urban violence
The aesthetic regime of fascist thought and desires
Spiral movement: How to write with fascism?
5G and urban aesthetics
Fascism - Urbanism - Aesthetics
Aestheticising and beautifying: Benjamin and/versus Rancière
The post-race city: Borders, freedom and imagination
Drawing a 'revolutionary we': Queer antifascist lines for universal liberation
Revolutionärer Antifaschismus als Stadtplan: Gewalträume, Freiräume und Traumräume
Aestheticizing the beautiful city: Democratic politics and design review
Avenue of atrocities
Spiral movement: Writing with fascism and urban violence
Materiality, race and speculative aesthetics
Drawing as an ethico-political practice
Ruined skylines: Aesthetics, politics and London's towering cityscape
Thinking against heritage: Speculative development and emancipatory politics in the City of London
Wrecking London's skyline? A political critique of how the City is viewed
Visual consequences of the plan: Managing London's changing skyline
Skylines and the 'whole' city
Elevations, icons and lines: The city abstracted through is skylines
The life and work of the German-Jewish thinker Walter Benjamin are closely connected to Berlin. In this public reading, we take up Benjamin’s call (e.g. in Theses on the Philosophy of History) not to engage passively with history. The reading interweaves Benjamin's life in Berlin with his writing about Berlin, while simultaneously interpreting Benjamin's work from the perspective of ongoing urbanisation process to test its relevance to current issues facing urban society and the possibility of a non-fascist life. On 20 October 2024, Mareike Wenzel and Carmel Colabella read at the Villa Oppenheim. Sound and composition: Nihad El-Kayed and Tobias Purfürst.
Antifascist theatre
W. Benjamin walks and writes in bed through Berlin: An anti-dramatic reading in three acts
Urban Room | Intensive Places in Dessau
Publics | Places in Europe
HighLow in Busan
SeaNear in Larnaca
WaterTourism in Ljubljana
Cardiff Interdisciplinary Research on Antifascism and the Far right (CIRAF)
Worldwide Antifascism Research Network
Violence of Integration: Forging alliances for diverse cities
Politics of Urban Design
Borderspaces
Cities
Urban Design Thinkers
Urban Theory Provocations
Autumn Design Studio
Narrative Environments
Architecture Lecture Series
Design Studio
City Design: Research Studio
Cities by Design
Drawing the queer antifascist city
Micro-antifascism and the politics of feeling
W. Benjamin walks and writes in bed through Berlin
Antifascism as a liberatory spatial practice
Urban guerilla and revolutionary antifascism
Drawing queer lines
Antifascism as a city map
Nonrepresentational urban drawing
The post-race city and non-racial urban imaginaries
Urban imaginaries and authoritarian urbanism
Fascism and urban violence
The aesthetic regime of fascist thought and desires
Spiral movement: How to write with fascism?
5G and urban aesthetics
Fascism - Urbanism - Aesthetics
Aestheticising and beautifying: Benjamin and/versus Rancière
The post-race city: Borders, freedom and imagination
Drawing a 'revolutionary we': Queer antifascist lines for universal liberation
Revolutionärer Antifaschismus als Stadtplan: Gewalträume, Freiräume und Traumräume
Aestheticizing the beautiful city: Democratic politics and design review
Avenue of atrocities
Spiral movement: Writing with fascism and urban violence
Materiality, race and speculative aesthetics
Drawing as an ethico-political practice
Ruined skylines: Aesthetics, politics and London's towering cityscape
Thinking against heritage: Speculative development and emancipatory politics in the City of London
Wrecking London's skyline? A political critique of how the City is viewed
Visual consequences of the plan: Managing London's changing skyline
Skylines and the 'whole' city
Elevations, icons and lines: The city abstracted through is skylines
Antifascist theatre
W. Benjamin walks and writes in bed through Berlin: An anti-dramatic reading in three acts
Urban Room | Intensive Places in Dessau
Publics | Places in Europe
HighLow in Busan
SeaNear in Larnaca
WaterTourism in Ljubljana
Cardiff Interdisciplinary Research on Antifascism and the Far right (CIRAF)
Worldwide Antifascism Research Network
Violence of Integration: Forging alliances for diverse cities
Politics of Urban Design
Borderspaces
Cities
Urban Design Thinkers
Urban Theory Provocations
Autumn Design Studio
Narrative Environments
Architecture Lecture Series
Design Studio
City Design: Research Studio
Cities by Design
Drawing the queer antifascist city
Micro-antifascism and the politics of feeling
W. Benjamin walks and writes in bed through Berlin
Antifascism as a liberatory spatial practice
Urban guerilla and revolutionary antifascism
Drawing queer lines
Antifascism as a city map
Nonrepresentational urban drawing
The post-race city and non-racial urban imaginaries
Urban imaginaries and authoritarian urbanism
Fascism and urban violence
The aesthetic regime of fascist thought and desires
Spiral movement: How to write with fascism?
5G and urban aesthetics
Fascism - Urbanism - Aesthetics
Aestheticising and beautifying: Benjamin and/versus Rancière
The post-race city: Borders, freedom and imagination
Drawing a 'revolutionary we': Queer antifascist lines for universal liberation
Revolutionärer Antifaschismus als Stadtplan: Gewalträume, Freiräume und Traumräume
Aestheticizing the beautiful city: Democratic politics and design review
Avenue of atrocities
Spiral movement: Writing with fascism and urban violence
Materiality, race and speculative aesthetics
Drawing as an ethico-political practice
Ruined skylines: Aesthetics, politics and London's towering cityscape
Thinking against heritage: Speculative development and emancipatory politics in the City of London
Wrecking London's skyline? A political critique of how the City is viewed
Visual consequences of the plan: Managing London's changing skyline
Skylines and the 'whole' city
Elevations, icons and lines: The city abstracted through is skylines
Date
2022-2024
Language
English and German
Author
Günter Gassner in collaboration with the Walter Benjamin Archive at the Academy of the Arts Berlin, Museum Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf, and POLIGONAL-Office for Urban Communication
Keywords
Critical Theory
Benjamin
Aesthetics
Commodification
Heritage