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- Title
A CHIASMUS OF BAROQUE FORMS OF EXISTENCE, COMMUNITY, AND SPECTRALITY: BENJAMIN-DEBORD.
- Authors
Roraback, Erik S.
- Abstract
That Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) and Guy Debord (1931-94) share distinctive qualities that endow both personas and their respective bodies of compositional work the stamp of a twentieth-century Baroque aesthetics within the literary and theoretical arts constitutes the basic thesis of the present article. The line of argumentation supports the cultural notion that in a criss-cross, trans-temporal arrangement of a spectralized reappearance of the Baroque in Benjamin and in Debord, both personages and corpuses of writings tap into notions concerning forms of existence, of community and of spectrality for a contemporaneity still to see itself in such chiasmatic structures dating back to the classical Baroque period of the seventeenth century. The article also attempts to elucidate the true stakes in the question about the role of spirits, of specters and of ghosts in the production of possible, and of desirable, kinds of existence and of community, in the wake of the birthing of the modern world that was the early capitalist and Baroque seventeenth century.
- Subjects
BAROQUE literature -- History &; criticism; BENJAMIN, Walter, 1892-1940; DEBORD, Guy, 1931-1994; SPIRITS; GHOSTS; AESTHETICS; SEVENTEENTH century
- Publication
Litteraria Pragensia: Studies in Literature & Culture, 2007, Vol 17, Issue 34, p101
- ISSN
0862-8424
- Publication type
Article