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August 20, 2006
I've been unpacking the rest of my books, which have been sitting in cartoons for around 10 years, in the store room at the holiday shack in Victor Harbor. I've finally had some bookshelves built for the study rooom--which I've painted inbetween the holiday in Clare and Robe.
One book caught my eye: Susan Buck -Morss's The Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project. This interpretation of the nineteenth century arcades in Paris was Bejmanin's attempt to bridge the gap between everyday experience and traditional academic concerns; an attempt to achieve a phenomenoligocal hermeneutics of the profane world that Heidegger had gestured towards.
Illustration from Haussmann's Paris Architecture: Interior of the Galeries Lafayette, one of the many new department stores that redefined shopping, consumption and the public sphere for men and women in Haussmann's Paris.
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