On The Angel of History
“A Klee painting named ‘Angelus Novus’ shows an angel looking as though he is about to move away from something he is fixedly contemplating. His eyes are staring, his mouth is open, his wings are spread. This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing in from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such a violence that the angel can no longer close them. The storm irresistibly propels him into the future to which his back is turned, while the pile of debris before him grows skyward. This storm is what we call progress.”
Walter Benjamin’s 9th Thesis; Theses on the Philosophy of History
Category: Uncategorized 8 comments »
December 21st, 2009 at 9:57 pm
I am definitely bookmarking this page and sharing it with my friends.
December 22nd, 2009 at 3:03 am
Very great website.
The information here is super useful.
I will give it to my friends.
Cheers
January 30th, 2010 at 7:13 am
Very nice Blog, I will tell my friends about it.
Thanks
February 11th, 2010 at 4:04 am
This is a nice site.
I’ve bookmarked this particular web page and also I will inform my local freinds about this.
Thanks
April 12th, 2010 at 6:56 am
Вот это реал…уважуха…Респект!…
This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive […….
April 22nd, 2010 at 9:30 am
Я конечно, прошу прощения, но, по-моему, это очевидно….
This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive […….
September 5th, 2010 at 2:43 pm
Buy:Buspar.Female Cialis.Acomplia.Lipitor.Amoxicillin.Zetia.Seroquel.SleepWell.Prozac.Advair.Female Pink Viagra.Wellbutrin SR.Benicar.Lasix.Aricept.Nymphomax.Zocor.Cozaar.Ventolin.Lipothin….
September 6th, 2010 at 11:04 am
Buy:Prevacid.Actos.Petcam (Metacam) Oral Suspension.Arimidex.Nexium.Prednisolone.100% Pure Okinawan Coral Calcium.Lumigan.Synthroid.Human Growth Hormone.Zovirax.Zyban.Mega Hoodia.Retin-A.Valtrex.Accutane….