Table of Contents

Author’s note
Preliminaries: An Accumulation of Technological Themes
1. Explosion of a Landscape
2. Benjamin’s Objectives
3. Berlin Chthonic, Photos and Trains and Films and Cars
4. Dream Whirled: Technik and Mirroring
5. Murmurs from Darkest Europe
6. The Work of Art in the Age of Unbearable Capitulation
7. Time for an Unnatural Death
Benjamin’s Finale; Excavating and Re-membering

About the Author

Esther Leslie is a professor in Political Aesthetics at Birkbeck College, University of London. She is the author of Walter Benjamin (Pluto, 2000), Hollywood Flatlands, Animation, Critical Theory and the Avant Garde (Verso, 2002) and Walter Benjamin, On Photography (Reaktion, 2015).

Reviews

'The extensive historical detail assembled in the book is woven together with Benjamin's texts in a manner which convincingly exhibits the historical moment in the very fabric of those texts'
*Radical Philosophy*

'An important contribution to understanding Benjamin and technology, and should be read by those wishing to better understand the original reflections on technology by one of the past century's most original thinkers'
*Douglas Kellner, UCLA*