One-Way Street

Benjamin's philosophy causes every intention to die the 'death from truth', and the truth is divided into stilled 'ideas' and their court: the 'images'. Whereas precisely genuine images, the sharp details and exact depths of this literature, its central remoteness and the finds of its cross-drilling do not dwell in snail shells or caves of Mithras, with a pane of glass in front, but in public process, as dialectical experiment-figures of process. Surrealistic philosophizing is exemplary as polish and montage of fragments, which however very pluralistically and unrelatedly remain such. It i constitutive as montage which jointly builds real series of streets, such that not the intention but the fragment dies from the truth and is utilized for reality; even one-way streets have a goal.


-Ernst Bloch, "Review Form in Philosophy"

It was hard for me to understand what could keep a man who had written this in Germany

-Gershom Scholem, Walter Benjamin: The Story of a Friendship

The origin of the spectacle lies in the world's loss of unity, and its massive expansion in the modern period demonstrates how total this loss has been: the abstract nature of all individual work, as of production in general, finds perfect expression in the spectacle, whose very manner of being concrete is, precisely abstraction. The spectacle divides the world into two parts, one of which is held up as a self-representation to the world, and is superior to the world. The spectacle is simply the common language that bridges this division. Spectators are linked only by a one-way relationship to the very center that maintains their isolation from one another. The spectacle thus unites what is separate, but it unites it only in it separateness. 

-Guy Debord, Society of the Spectacle

List of Aphorisms


Filling Station

Breakfast Room
Number 113
    -Cellar
    -Vestibule
    -Dining Hall
For Men
Standard Clock
Come Back! All is forgiven
Manorially furnished Ten-Room Apartment
Chinese Curios
Gloves
Mexican Embassy 

To the Public: Please Protect and Oreserve these New Plantings
Construction Site
Ministry of the Interior
Flag...
...at Half Mast
Imperial Panorama: A Tour through the German inflation
Underground Works
Coiffeur for Easily Embarrassed Ladies
Caution: Steps
Attested Auditor of Fiction
Teaching Aid [Principles of the Weighty Tome, or, How to Write Fat Books]
Germans, Drink German Beer!
Post no Bills
   -The Writers technique in 13 theses
    -Thirteen theses against snobs
    -The critic's technique in 13 theses
Number 13
Ordnance
First Aid
Interior Decoration
Stationers
    -Pharus Map
    -List of wishes
    -Pocket diary
    -Paperweight
Fancy Goods
Enlargements
    -Child reading
    -Belated child
    -Pilfering child
    -Child on the carousel
    -Untidy child
    -Child hiding
Antiques
    -Medallion
    -Prayer wheel
    -Antique spoon
    -Old map
    -Fan
    -Relief
    -Torso
Watchmaker and Jeweler
Arc Lamp
Loggia
    -Geranium
    -Carthusian carnation
    -Cactus bloom
    -Forget-me-not
    -Foliage plant
Lost-and-Found Office
    -Articles lost
    -Articles found
Stand for Not More than Three Cabs
Monument to a Warrior: Karl Kraus
Fire Alarm
Travel Souvenirs
    -Atrani
    -Navy
    -Versailles facade
    -Heidelberg Castle
    -Seville, Alcazar
    -Marseilles cathedral
    -Freiburg minster 

    -Moscow, St. Basil's 

    -Boscotrecase
    -Naples, Museo Nazionale
    -Florence, Baptistry
    -Sky
Optician
Toys
    -Cut-out models
    -Targets
    -Stereoscope
    -Not for sale 

Polyclinic
This Space for Rent
Office Equipment
Mixed Cargo: Shipping and Packing
Closed for Alterations
Augeas Self-Service Restaurant
Stamp Shop
Si Parla Italiano
Technical Aid
Hardware 

Tax Advice
Legal Protection for the Needy 

    -Publisher
    -Author
Doctor's Night-Bell
Madame Ariane
Costume Wardrobe 

Betting Office
Stand-Up Beer Hall
No Vagrants
To The Planetarium