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coney island guys and dolls
Lost innocence. A necessary illusion that marks the end of one episode and the beginning in a new journey known as American exceptionalism …once described as “Sodom by the sea.” Coney Island was a sanctioned escape from—and alternative to—everyday reality. … Continue reading
thrift store arcadia
The Arcades Project. It was a preoccupation for what Walter Benjamin perceived as the commodification of things. The individual aura and human experience that encased existence could be fragmented and packaged like security derivatives and tranches of sub-prime mortgages. Benjamin … Continue reading
true grit and rough justice: wild west as arcades project
Charles Baudelaire incarnated, in his bohemian manner, the democratization of poetry. It was a new language that lacked an academic subtext; totally alien to he Academie Francaise to which he aspired. It was the language of the “flaneur” to which … Continue reading
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