Mar 072013
Time for a little merengue!
Longtime readers of the NC Blog will recognize these videos (late at night, merengue phantoms haunt me). I am still looking for a suitable Walter Benjamin or Viktor Shklovsky quote to fit in here. Surely, Benjamin had a theory about merengue and modernity. I seem to recall a passage in The Arcades Project —
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Congrats on finishing the packets! Now the tender hearts will bleed. : )
I know what the problem is about Walter Benjamin. You’ve been hunting through The Arcades Project, but you forgot to look here:
http://walterbenjamin.bandcamp.com/track/this-aint-our-last-dance
Walter Benjamin reincarnated as Walter Benjamin. Nice find, Julie. 🙂