Baudelaire venal

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)

Checks and Balances in the ancien regime: tax farming, venal offices, and the outsourcing of public administration