{"id":1237,"date":"2006-07-25T21:49:33","date_gmt":"2006-07-26T01:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=1237"},"modified":"2015-12-06T19:53:52","modified_gmt":"2015-12-06T19:53:52","slug":"the-flaneur-and-the-arcade-hypertext-on-walter-benjamins-the-arcades-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=1237","title":{"rendered":"The Fl\u00e2neur and the Arcade: Hypertext on Walter Benjamin&#8217;s, The Arcades Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.othervoices.org\/gpeaker\/Passagenwerk.html\"> Walter Benjamin&#8217;s <em>Passagenwerk<\/em>: Reading in the Ruins<\/a> by Giles Peaker is a hypertext project that brings together passages from Benjamin&#8217;s <cite>The Arcades<\/cite> project on themes like the the fl\u00e2neur and the prostitute. Benjamin&#8217;s project is about fragmentary spectacle in the city, it is itself a collection of fragments, and the hypertext by Peaker re-represents thus. In some sense, this pre-modern moment of the fl\u00c3\u00a2neur and the arcade, is the urban precursor to the liesurely browser in the arcade of the web &#8211; watching, and through his (her) blog, posing for others.<\/p>\n<p>The arcades were replaced after the convulsions of 1848 in the Second Empire by the great halls of industry of modernity according to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/David_Harvey_(geographer\">David Harvey<\/a> in <cite>Paris: Capital of Modernity<\/cite> (Routledge, 2003). The arcades were scaled up to the modern exhibition spaces from Les Halles to the Crystal Palace. The Paris arcades, thanks to critical interest Benjamin, have become a way to think through the spectacle of the hypertextual (and therefore fragmentary) web. Thanks to Marcel O&#8217;Gorman for pointing this intersection out to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walter Benjamin&#8217;s Passagenwerk: Reading in the Ruins by Giles Peaker is a hypertext project that brings together passages from Benjamin&#8217;s The Arcades project on themes like the the fl\u00e2neur and the prostitute. Benjamin&#8217;s project is about fragmentary spectacle in the city, it is itself a collection of fragments, and the hypertext by Peaker re-represents thus. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=1237\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Fl\u00e2neur and the Arcade: Hypertext on Walter Benjamin&#8217;s, The Arcades Project<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hypertext-fiction","category-multimedia-theory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5971,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237\/revisions\/5971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}