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
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Walter Benjamin at the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, 1937

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.