{"product_id":"words-of-light-theses-on-the-photography-of-history","title":"Words of Light: Theses on the Photography of History","description":"\u003cp\u003eHere Eduardo Cadava demonstrates that Walter Benjamin articulates his conception of history through the language of photography. Focusing on Benjamins discussions of the flashes and images of history  he argues that the questions raised by this link between photography and history touch on issues that belong to the entire trajectory of his writings: the historical and political consequences of technology  the relation between reproduction and mimesis  images and history  remembering and forgetting  allegory and mourning  and visual and linguistic representation. The book establishes the photographic constellation of motifs and themes around which Benjamin organizes his texts and thereby becomes a lens through which we can begin to view his analysis of the convergence between the new technological media and a revolutionary concept of historical action and understanding.  Written in the form of theses--what Cadava calls \"snapshots in prose\"--the book memorializes Benjamins own thetic method of writing. It enacts a mode of conceiving history that is neither linear nor successive  but rather discontinuous--constructed from what Benjamin calls \"dialectical images.\" In this way  it not only suggests the essential rapport between the fragmentary form of Benjamins writing and his effort to write a history of modernity but it also skillfully clarifies the relation between Benjamin and his contemporaries  the relation between fascism and aesthetic ideology. It gives us the most complete picture to date of Benjamins reflections on history.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44946694766645,"sku":"ByrdShop_0691002681","price":36.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780691002682.jpg?v=1769961485","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/words-of-light-theses-on-the-photography-of-history","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}