Walter Benjamin, tradutor de Baudelaire

Interview with Walter C . Willett Conducted by Benjamin C . Williams

Walter C. Willett MD, DrPH, is Fredrick John Stare Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition and Chairman of the Department of Nutrition at Harvard School of Public Health as well as a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He studied food science as an undergraduate at Michigan State University, obtained a medical degree from the University of Michigan Medical School and a Doctorate in...

Controllability of the Benjamin-Bona-Mahony Equation Controlabilidad de la Ecuación de Benjamin-Bona-Mahony

Abstract In this note we study the controllability of the Generalized BenjaminBona-Mahony equation (BBM) with homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions. Under some conditions we shall prove the system is approximately controllable on [0, t1] if and only if the following algebraic condition holds Rank[Bj ] = γj , where Bj acts from IR m to R(Ej), λj ’ s are the eigenvalues of −∆ with Dirichlet b...

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...

Walter Benjamin and the Tectonic Unconscious: Using Architecture as an Optical Instrument

The writings of Walter Benjamin include appropriations and transformations of modernist architectural history and theory that offer an opportunity to broaden the interpretation of how the relationship between the 'unconscious' and technologically aided 'optics' is figured in his commentaries on cultural modernity. This essay focuses on three moments in his writings, each of which touches on thi...

Racial aura: Walter Benjamin and the work of art in a biotechnological age.