The Nutshells, for all their precision, aren’t puzzles to be solved; some don’t even have a “right” answer. More than anything, they’re occasions for observation, perceptual exercises. They’re laboratories for looking and thinking–not surprisingly, Lee would prickle when people referred to them as dollhouses–so it’s no wonder that they continue to intrigue people to … Continue reading
“All this was part of Walter Benjamin’s world. The old revolutionary delighted in its variety at the same time as seeing that the citizens, spellbound by capitalism, were sleepwalking into inequality and injustice. The spell was first cast in the arcades. The Arcades Project is a book of counterspells, a way of waking up.” The … Continue reading
