Apocalipse Baudelaire

The Baudelaire phenomenon.

In recent times, we see patients who consult numerous doctors in a short time, and do not obtain definitive diagnoses, or effective therapies, ending up increasing their doubts, insecurities, dissatisfactions, and piles of supplementary tests. Despite the fact that this “low resolution medicine” affects more often users of the national public health system (SUS), it also exists in private medic...

Baudelaire, Theoretician of Modern Art

Translation of Reun ar C'halan [René Galand] " Baudelaire, diouganer an arz nevez " , Al Liamm, niv.

Modernist Ruskin, Victorian Baudelaire: Revisioning Nineteenth-Century Aesthetics

In an influenTial 1985 essay, fRedRic Jameson aRgues ThaT The nineteenth-­century poems of Charles Baudelaire foreshadow de-­ velopments in twentieth-­century styles, anticipating not only a high modernist “dissolution of the referent” but also a postmodernist “world of the image, of textual free-­play, the world of consumer so-­ ciety and its simulacra” (255–56). Jameson’s reading necessitate...

Material Figures: Political Economy, Commercial Culture, and the Aesthetic Sensibility of Charles Baudelaire (book review)

In Search of Lost Community: The Literary Image between “Proust” and “Baudelaire” in Walter Benjamin’s Modernization Lament

This essay takes up the encounter between philosophy and literature through a reconsideration of Walter Benjamin’s remarks from “On Some Motifs in Baudelaire” about Henri Bergson’s Matière et mémoire as an attempt “[t]owering above” other ventures into Lebensphilosophie to “lay hold of the ‘true’ experience, as opposed to the kind that manifests itself in the standardized, denatured life of the...