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"Architecture, Temporality, and Dream in Benjamin's Passagenwerk"

Tyrus Miller

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Event Date: Monday, April 01, 2002
Location: VP, University of Pennsylvania
Theorizing Series | Organized by Aaron Levy

Caption: Slought Foundation Event Space, 2003

Full title: "Glass before its time, premature iron: Architecture, Temporality, and Dream in Benjamin's Passagenwerk"


Tyrus Miller is Associate Professor of Literature at the University of California at Santa Cruz, where he also coordinates the Modernist and Avant-Garde Studies research unit. For 2001-2003, he is director of the University of California Study Center in Budapest, Hungary. He is author of LATE MODERNISM: POLITICS, FICTION, AND THE ARTS BETWEEN THE WORLD WARS (University of California Press, 1999) and of a manuscript in progress about the "afterlife of the readymade" in literature, theory, and the visual arts.

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