Boston: The MIT Press, 1991. — 505 p. — ISBN10: 0262521644; ISBN13: 978-0262521642. Walter Benjamin's magnum opus was a book he did not live to write. In The Dialectics of Seeing, Susan Buck-Morss offers an inventive reconstruction of the Passagen Werk, or Arcades Project, as it might have taken form. Working with Benjamin's vast files of citations and commentary which contain...
Article. — October. — 1992. — Vol. 62. (Autumn) — pp. 3-41.
Walter Benjamin's essay "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" is generally taken to be an affirmation of mass culture and of
the new technologies through which it is disseminated. And rightly so. Benjamin praises the cognitive, hence political, potential of technologically mediated cultural...
Boston: The MIT Press, 2002. — 386 p. — ISBN10: 0262523310; ISBN13: 978-0262523318. The dream of the twentieth century was the construction of mass utopia. As the century closes, this dream is being left behind; the belief that industrial modernization can bring about the good society by overcoming material scarcity for all has been challenged by the disintegration of European...
Article published in the «Inquiry» — 1995 — Vol. 21 — Issue 2 — pp. 434-467 These idea-producing clusters are enmeshed in global webs that, according to U.S. Secretary of Labor Robert Reich, catch approximately one-fifth of the U.S. population up into the global economy with prospects for a prosperous future, but threaten to leave much of the nation’s workforce out in the cold. To...
Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009 — 160 p. — ISBN10: 0822943409; ISBN13: 978-0822943402. In this path-breaking work, Susan Buck-Morss draws new connections between history, inequality, social conflict, and human emancipation. Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History offers a fundamental reinterpretation of Hegel's master-slave dialectic and points to a way forward to...
Article published in «October» — 1995. — Vol. 73 (Summer) — pp. 3-26 The end of the Cold War is the determining moment of this presentation. A certain kind of industrial dreamworld has dissipated, one that dominated the political imagination in both East and West for most of the century. To be sure, in the East the dream-form was a utopia of production, whereas in the West it...
Article published in the «New German Critique» — 1986. — No. 39 (Second Special Issue on Walter Benjamin, Autumn) — pp. 99-140
In the Passagen- Werk, Benjamin has left us his note boxes. That is, he has left us "everything essential." Lamentations over the work's incompleteness are thus irrelevant. Had he lived, the notes would not have become superfluous by entering into a...
New York, London: Free Press; Collier Macmillan. 1979. 352 p. ISBN10: 0029051509; ISBN13: 978-0029051504. Buck-Morss is a lucid and passionate guide to the difficult work of Adorno and Benjamin. This is not to say that she presents their work in an easily digestible form. Indeed, Buck-Morss's clarity makes readers appreciate how much they must be aware of to understand what...
London: Verso, 2006. — 158 p. — ISBN10: 1844675629; ISBN13: 978-1844675623. Renowned critical theorist Susan Buck-Morss argues convincingly that a global public needs to think past the twin insanities of terrorism and counter-terrorism in order to dismantle regressive intellectual barriers. Surveying the widespread literature on the relationship of Islam to modernity, she...
Article. — Arts. — 1997. — Vol. 56 — No. 1(Aesthetics and the Body Politic, Spring) — pp. 38-45. Buck-Morss's recent essays-including "Aesthetics and Anaesthetics: Walter Benjamin's Artwork Essay Reconsidered"; "The City as Dreamworld and Catastrophe"; and "Envisioning Capital: Political Economy on Display"'— have set out a provocative new interpretation of the status of the...
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