{"id":9975,"date":"2013-02-05T07:36:42","date_gmt":"2013-02-05T07:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/?p=6950"},"modified":"2013-02-05T07:36:42","modified_gmt":"2013-02-05T07:36:42","slug":"the-arcades-of-paris-and-walter-benjamins-philosophy-of-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/2013\/02\/05\/the-arcades-of-paris-and-walter-benjamins-philosophy-of-cities\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Arcades of Paris and Walter Benjamin&#8217;s Philosophy of Cities&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Glad to see Frank Cunningham is coming back to SFU next Tuesday  (Room 7000, SFU Harbour Ctr. 7pm) to give this talk. I heard him speak last year on philosophy of the city. The Institute for Humanites organize some fine events &amp; talks in Vancouver, some of my favourites and there&#8217;s no old bullshit about them, which is uplifting. Anyone can ask questions without being made to feel like a dimwit. The Institute welcome public attendence and engagement in my experience.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Arcades of Paris and Walter Benjamin&#8217;s Philosophy of Cities&#8221;<br \/>\nAbstract: In the 1920\u2019s and 30\u2019s the German philosopher Walter Benjamin began a philosophical study of urban life inspired by the Paris arcades (passages). This paper revisits the still existing arcades referred to by Benjamin to explicate his urban-philosophical methodology and conclusions and to take account of continuities and changes in the arcades, their uses, and environs between his time and that of present-day Paris.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glad to see Frank Cunningham is coming back to SFU next Tuesday (Room 7000, SFU Harbour Ctr. 7pm) to give this talk. I heard him speak last year on philosophy of the city. The Institute for Humanites organize some fine events &amp; talks in Vancouver, some of my favourites and there&#8217;s no old bullshit about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[615,941,1038],"class_list":["post-9975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literature","tag-institute-for-the-humanities","tag-prof-frank-cunningham","tag-sfu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}