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56. Ibid., pp. 198-199.
57. Ibid., pp. 201-202.
58. Ibid., p. 50n. The passage from Marx is in Marx and Engels, Collected Work.r, vol. 1
(New York: Intemational Publishers, 1975), p. 203 ("The Philosophical Manifesto of
the I-Iistorical School of Law;' trans. Clemens Dutt).
59. From G. W. F. Hegel, Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences, trans. William Wallace,
in Hegel: Selections) ed. Jacob Loewenberg (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons,
1929), pp. 237-238.
60. Marx, "On the Jewish QJlestion;' Selected Writings, pp. 54-56.
6l. Now in GS, vol. 2, pp. 476-478. In English in Walter Benjamin, "One-Way Street" and
Other Writings (London: Verso, 1979), pp. 359-36l.
62. Theodor Adorno, In SearcH if T#zgner, trans. Rodney Livingstone (London: Verso,
1981), pp. 82-83. It might be said that the method of citation in Tlte Arcades Project,
the polyphony of the text, works precisely to counter the phantasmagoria Adorno
speaks of.
Y [Photography 1
1. Feenstiicke (a translation of the French ften'es) are theatrical spectacles involving often
pantomime, the appearance of supernatural chaTacters like fairies and enchanters,
and the use of stage machinery to create elaborate scenic effects.
2. Anicet Bourgeois and Adolphe Dennery, Gaspard Hause drama in four acts (paris,
1838). [RoT]
3. Nadar's account, "Paris souterrain," was first published in 1867, in connection with
the Exposition Universelle. His photographs of the catacombs (fonner quarries refit­
ted to house skeletons from overfull cemeteries) in 1861-1862, and of the Paris
sewers in 1864-1865, in which he employed his patented new process of photogra­
phy by electric light, followed on his experiments with aerial photography. See the
catalogue of the exhibition Nadal' (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Axt, 1995),
pp. 98-100, 248 (plate 93 shows one of Nadar's matmequins in the sewer) .
4. Nadar actually interviewed the famous chernist on the latter's hundredth birthday.
Eight of the series of twenty-seven instantaneous photos are reproduced in Nada
pp. l02-103.
5. Honon de Balzac, Cousin Pons) trans. Herbert ]. Hunt (London: Penguin, 1968),
pp. 131, 133.
6. Nadar helped organize an exhibition of the work of Constantin Guys in 1895.
7. Charles Baudelaire, "The Painter of Modern Lift" and Other Essays, trans. Jonathan
Mayne (1964; rpt. New York: Da Capo, 1986), p. 201.
8. Charles Baudelaire, Selected Writings on Art and Literature, trans. P. E. Charvet (1972;
rpt. London: Penguin, 1992), pp. 295-296.
9. Ibid., p. 225.
10. Baudelaire, The Mirror of Art, trans. Jonathan Mayne (London: Phaidon, 1955),
pp. 230-231; "factual exactitude') translates exactitude matenelle.
1l. Les Mariis de la tour Eiffil (Marriage and the EifTel Tower) , ballet scenario of 1921.
"Experience;' in this entry, translates Erlebnis.
Z [The Doll, The Automaton 1
1. Puppe) in German, can mean "puppet" as well as "doll:'