Walter Benjamin’s life, to use the kind of metaphor he was so fond of, was not unlike the Parisian arcades, those covered ...

A new biography of the Berlin-born philosopher emphasizes his combination of stubborn unworldliness and startling prescience.

R.I.P., Walter Benjamin, you (probably) would have hated the new iPad. A viral ad for the “thinnest product [Apple] ever created” shows an industrial hydraulic press squishing musical instruments, ...

It was the salute seen around the world — at least if the world and the internet, as it increasingly seems, have merged and become one. I am referring, of course, to the hand gesture made by Elon Musk ...

BFA Visual & Critical Studies and the SVA Honors Program present a talk with cultural theorist, University of Chicago professor, and Honors parent Malynne Sternstein. Sternstein will reconsider the ...

133/141 West 21st Street, New York, NY 10011 Sternstein will be arguing, among other things, that Surrealism as a movement disappointed Benjamin in its potential to turn into kitsch and thus serve ...