diff --git a/pages/concepts.trailblazers.md b/pages/concepts.trailblazers.md index f424061..3ea4df0 100644 --- a/pages/concepts.trailblazers.md +++ b/pages/concepts.trailblazers.md @@ -20,4 +20,20 @@ - [[concepts.archive]] - [[concepts.archives.art]]] - [[people.AndyMatuschak]] -- [[concepts.situationism]] \ No newline at end of file +- [[concepts.situationism]] + +---- +[[people.WalterBenjamin]] +“To live means to **leave traces**. In the interior, these are accentuated.” I +- https://www.academia.edu/41294842/_Erase_the_traces_urban_experience_in_Walter_Benjamins_commentary_on_Brechts_lyric_poetry +- https://crosspollenblog.wordpress.com/2014/06/15/thinking-outside-the-box-walter-benjamins-critique-of-dwelling/ +The interior is not just the universe but also the etui of the private in- +dividuaL To dwell means to leave traces. In the interior, these are accen- +tuated. Coverlets and antimacassars, cases and containers are devised in +abundance; in these, the traces of the most ordinary objects of use are im- +printed. In just the same way, the traces of the inhabitant are imprinted in +the interior. Enter the detective story, which pursues these traces. Poe, in +his "Philosophy of Furniture" as well as in his detective fiction, shows +himself to be the first physiognomist of the domestic interior. The crimi- +nals in early detective novels are neither gentlemen nor apaches, but pri- +vate citizens of the middle class. \ No newline at end of file