The Arcades Project - Operi

No. 22
The sex appeal of the commodity
Mobilization of the inorganic through fashion; its triumph in the doll
(The love market of Paris)
Paris as material offashion; psychology of the quartier in Janin and
Lefeuve
(The battle between utopia and cynicism in Grandville)
Grandville as precursor of advertising graphics
The world exhibition of 1867; triumph of cynicism; Offenbach as its
demon
Grandville and the Fourierists (Toussenel's philosophy of nature)
The universal extension 0/ commodity character to the world 0/ things
Body and wax figure
Chthonic elements in Grandville I (Chthonic elements in the image of
Paris)
The spicialite
On V
{Critique of modernity (presumably a separate section). The new has the
character of a semblance and coincides with the semblance
of the eternally recurrent. The dialectical semblance of the new and
always identical is tl,e basis of "cultural history;'}
On V
Four digressions on boredom. The snob, who lives in the semblant world of
the new and ever identical, has a constant companion: boredom. With
Proust, snobbism becomes the key to the social analysis of the upper cmst.
11,e total work of art represents an attempt to impose myth on society (myth
being, as Raphael rightly says