The Homer of potsdamerplatz - Walter Benjamin in Wim Wenders's Sky over Berlin/Wings of Desire, a critical topography

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Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 86-109

  Bordo, Jonathan ^a  

^a TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 64249168922     PISSN: 18717993     EISSN: 18718000     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/187180008X408618     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. Wim Wenders, The Logic of Images: Essays and Conversations, trans. Michael Hofmann (London: Faber and Faber, 1991), 78
2. W.G. Sebald, On the Natural History of Destruction (Toronto: Vintage, 2003), 103
3. Albert Speer, Inside the Third Reich, trans. Richard and Clara Winston (New York: Avon, 1971), 56
4. Wim Wenders, On Film (London: Faber and Faber, 2001), 233
5. Alexandra Richie, Faust's Metropolis: A History of Berlin (New York: Carroll and Graf, 1998), 575
6. See also the discourse of survival in Giorgio Agamben, Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life (Stanford, Ca.: Stanford University, 1998) and the way that the positing of survival as a minimum inevitably invites its transgression
7. Wenders, The Logic of Images, 87
8. Walter Benjamin, "The Storyteller," in Selected Writings, eds. Marcus Bullock and Michael W. Jennings (Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap, 1996-2003), 3:143-166
9. Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, trans. Robert Fitzgerald, in Greek Tragedies, vol. 3 (Chicago: University of Chicago, 1960), 112
10. Walter Benjamin, "Berlin Childhood," Selected Writings, 3:344
11. Victor Walter, Placeways: A Theory of the Human Environment (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 1988)
12. I would like to thank David Kettler for bringing this work to my attention. See more recently, Peter C. van Wyck, "Emphatic Geography: Notes on the Ethical Itinerary of Landscape," Canadian Journal of Communications 33, 2 (2008)
13. See Claude Levi-Strauss, The Savage Mind (Chicago: University of Chicago, 1966)
14. See Jesper Svenbro on "Hierheit" in Phrasikleia: An Anthropology of Reading in Ancient Greece, trans. Janet Lloyd (Ithaca: Cornell University, 1993) 42-3
15. Wenders, On Film, 232
16. Jacques Derrida, Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression, trans. Eric Prenowitz (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996), 3
17. Dante, The Inferno, trans. Robert Pinsky (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1994)
18. Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams, ed. trans. Joyce Crick (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998), 88
19. Richie, Faust's Metropolis, 594
20. Benjamin, "Announcement of the Journal Angelus Novus," Selected Writings, 1:296
21. Benjamin "On the Concept of History," in vol. 3 of Selected Writings, 392
22. Benjamin, "The Storyteller," 3:144
23. Benjamin "Unpacking My Library," Selected Writings, 2:491-2
24. Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies, trans. Edward Snow (New York: North Point Press, 2000), 55
25. Jacques Derrida, La Voix et Le Phénomène, (Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 1967) especially chap. 6
26. See Émile Benvéniste, Le Vocabulaire des institutions indoeuropéenes, 2 vols. (Paris: Editions de Minuit, 1969)
27. and Jonathan Bordo, "Picture and Witness at the Site of the Wilderness" in Landscape and Power, 2nd ed. WJT Mitchell (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002), especially 298-302
28. See Jesper Svenbro, La parole et le marbre: aux origines de la poétique grecque, Ph.D. dissertation, Lund University, 1976