Fashion prescribes the ritual according to which the commodity fetish demands to be worshipped.
#WB #TheArcadesProject

@ramat_manifesto Just as architecture, with the first appearance of iron construction, begins to outgrow art, so does painting, in its turn, with the first appearance of the panoramas. #WB #TheArcadesProject

"Construction plays the role of the subconscious" Sigfriend Giedion vide Walter Benjamin #TheArcadesProject

"Nadar's superiority to his colleagues is shown by his attempt to take photographs in the Paris sewer system: for the first time, the lens was deemed capable of making discoveries."

Nothing says "I've lived under fascism" quite like this dry, elliptical humour #TheArcadesProject