Jean-Nicolas Servandoni's spectacles of nature and technology.

From: French Forum | Date: March 22, 2005| Author: Olivier, Marc | Copyright information 
 
   Servandoni (1) 
   Walter Benjamin, The Arcades Project

The name "Servandoni" appears enigmatically in Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project, the unfinished work in which Benjamin theorized the foundations of modernity. (2) Grouped with flanerie and illusion, and contextualized within Benjamin's interest in the "effect of industrial production on traditional cultural forms," the obscure references connect the architect, painter, set designer, and virtuoso of specta...

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