The Arcades Project - Operi

The now of recognizability is the moment of awakening.
In the awakening, the dream stands still.
The historical movement is a dialectical movement. But the movement of
false consciousness is not. This consciousness becomes dialectical also in
the awakening.
No. IS
Methodological RrflectionJ
Make use of studies on the "now of recognizability"
Make use of Proust's description of awakening
Awakening as the critical moment in the reading of dream images
Special claims of the recent past on the method of the historian
Demarcation from cultural history
Reread Hegel on dialectics at a standstill
The experience of our generation: that capitalism will not die a natural death.
Here, for the first time, the recent past becomes distant past. Primal history
forms part of the recent past, just as mountains, seen from a great distance,
appear to form part of the landscape lying before them.
No. 16
Wiesengrund
Dialectical image and dialectics at a standstill in Hegel
No. 17
The Fourierist utopia announces a transformation in the function of poetry
No. IS
Placed, thus, in the center of history,
As man forms the center of the horizon that, in his eyes, stretches around
him, so his existence forms for him the center of history. Looking about
him at the midday hour, he invites the emaciated spirits of the past to dine
at his table. (The historian presides) over a ghostly meal. The historian is
the herald who summons the departed to this banquet of spirits.
TI,e living generation