Tag Archives: Walter Benjamin

Another Dose of Immortality

Posted on April 20, 2017 by Scott Abbott

[watercolor by John Abbott]   Horror Vacui   The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen … Continue reading →

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Daily Dose of Immortality

Posted on January 3, 2017 by Scott Abbott

Those who want to approach their own buried pasts must  . . . not be afraid to return again and again to the same facts; to strew them about as one strews earth, to root around in them as one … Continue reading →

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Daily Dose of Immortality

Posted on December 17, 2016 by Scott Abbott

Every image of the past that is not recognized by the present as one of its own concerns threatens to disappear irretrievably. –Walter Benjamin from Immortal for Quite Some Time

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