Between the registers: The allegory of space in Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project

Boundary 2

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 169-190

  Sussman, Henry ^a  

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EID: 60950194806     PISSN: 01903659     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1215/01903659-30-1-169     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (23)

1. For the notion of Thrownness, see Martin Heidegger, Being and Time, trans. John Macquarrie and Edward Robinson (New York: Harper and Row, 1962), 174, 185, 188, 223-25, 232, 234, 295, 321, 329-30, 337, 378, 394, 399, 434-35, 458.
2. See Franz Kafka, "The Cares of a Family Man," in The Complete Stories, ed. Nahum N. Glatzer (New York: Schocken, 1976), 427-29.
3. See Jorge Luis Borges, "Pierre Menard, Author of Don Quixote," in Ficciones (New York: Grove, 1962), 45-56.
4. See Marshall McLuhan, The Mechanical Bride (Boston: Beacon Press, 1967), 2-7.
5. Walter Benjamin, The Arcades Project, trans. Howard Eiland and Kevin McLaughlin (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999), AP, 473, N9, 7. Subsequent references to this work are cited parenthetically as AP and by convolute.
6. See Maurice Blanchot, The Space of Literature, trans. Ann Smock (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1989), 44-48, 51-56, 81, 87, 93, 136-38, 153-57.
7. Walter Benjamin, "On Some Motifs in Baudelaire," in Illuminations, trans. Harry Zohn (New York: Schocken, 1969), 175-79, 184.
8. See, among many possible passages, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake (New York: Viking, 1986), 107-24, 182-83.
9. Genesis 22:1-19.
10. Also see Søren Kierkegaard, Kierkegaard's Writings, ed. and trans. Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong, vol. 6, Fear and Trembling/Repetition (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1983), 15-38, 48-53, 59-63.
11. Louis Aragon, Paris Peasant, intra, and trans. Simon Watson Taylor (Boston: Exact Change, 1994).
12. Aragon, Paris Peasant, 15.
13. Adin Steinsaltz, A Reference Guide to the Talmud: The Steinsaltz Edition (New York: Random House, 1989), 11-36, provides a comprehensive overview to this history.
14. J. Hillis Miller and Manuel Asensi, Black Holes; Or, Boustrophedontic Reading (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1999), 333-35, 349-55, 359-61.
15. Miller and Asensi, Black Holes, 359.
16. Steinsaltz, in A Reference Guide, 48-59, identifies the multiple registers and units of the Talmudic page.
17. A similar schematic is provided by Robert Goldenberg in his fine overview, "Talmud," in Back to the Sources: Reading the Classic Jewish Texts, ed. Barry Holtz (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1984), 140-43.
18. Avital Ronell's The Telephone Book: Technology, Schizophrenia, Electric Speech (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1989) not only engages in a profound and original meditation on the philosophical operating system underlying her chosen phenomena; it brings the book medium to some of its foregone conclusions. This work "dissolves" the genre of the academic treatise while preparing the way for something else, emerging on the horizon but not yet fully realized.
19. Citations of the Talmudic passage at hand derive from Adin Steinsaltz, ed., The Talmud: The Steinsaltz Edition, vol. 2, tractate Bava Metzia, part 2 (New York: Random House, 1990), 207-67. Subsequent references are cited parenthetically as T.
20. For Derrida's virtuoso performance of glas as concatenation, of the repetition and cascading of subrational elements (e.g. gl) speaking more to the composition of language than more definitive components, see his Glas, trans. John P. Leavey Jr. and Richard Rand (Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 1986), 47-53, 119-21, 139-42, 144-45, 147, 149-62, 210, 212, 222, 235-36, 253.
21. See Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus, trans. Brian Massumi (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1989), 139-42, 148;
22. also Anti-Oedipus, trans. Robert Hurley, Mark Seem, and Helen R. Lane (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1983), 140-42.
23. I have attempted to formulate the status of these outmoded political formations that nonetheless somehow always lurk beneath the surface of social space in "Deterritorializing the Text: Flow-Theory and Deconstruction, " MLN 115 (2000): 986-91.