Wednesday, December 15, 2004
(6:12 PM) | Adam Kotsko:
My Little Paper
I just thought you would all like an update: my paper on Benjamin's "Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" is going really well.I even got to drop a footnote to clarify "all translations mine" -- not on Benjamin himself, but still, it has been an ambition of mine to drop such a footnote since before my French class. (The "translations" in question are of Paul Valéry’s essay “La conquête de l’ubiquité” [1928]. I get a good couple pages out of old Paul, whom Adorno calls an arch-reactionary.)
All right -- time to go churn out the last two-thirds of the paper.
