Lecture
The Lightning Flash of Knowledge and the Time of Image
Sigrid Weigel
Visiting Professor, Department of German, Princeton University
April 18, 2013
Thursday
5:00 – 6:30 pm
School of Architecture N107
Image
Walter Benjamin at the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, 1937
On Walter Benjamin’s image-based epistemology and its pre-conditions in visual arts and media history.
Sigrid Weigel is Director, Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung, Berlin and Visiting Professor, Department of German, Princeton University.
Program in Media + Modernity; Program in European Cultural Studies; School of Architecture
