tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7038706923946698710.post2284781159892946545..comments2023-11-05T03:05:16.380-08:00Comments on No Useless Leniency: Ariadne's ThreadBenjaminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18237178500472453910noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7038706923946698710.post-90222953666666332902012-12-17T02:35:14.401-08:002012-12-17T02:35:14.401-08:00thanks for that, after tracking trains in Benjamin...thanks for that, after tracking trains in Benjamin, now it's threads... but more seriously, I think there is something in the metaphor in untangaling/plaiting which might speak to those 'numbered threads' you note and a new practice that speaks to production and temporality.Benjaminhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18237178500472453910noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7038706923946698710.post-4459392561981610282012-12-16T09:48:30.013-08:002012-12-16T09:48:30.013-08:00You've tugged on an interesting thread here. I...You've tugged on an interesting thread here. I think you have further support for your reading in Benjamin's Fuchs essay when he is addressing the surpassing of classicist artistic values:<br /><br />"[I]t would be a mistake to assume that the idealist view of art was itself entirely unhinged. That cannot happen until the dialecta membra which idealism contains - as "historical representation' - on the one hand and "appreciation" on the other-are merged and thereby surpassed. This effort, however, is left to a mode of historical science which fashions its object not out of a tangle of mere facticities but out of the numbered group of threads representing the woof of a past fed into the warp of the present."Joshuahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15194708771514694492noreply@blogger.com