Walter Benjamin and the Aesthetics of Change

Following the spirit of Benjamin's Arcades Project, this book acts as a kaleidoscope of change in the 21st century, tracing its different reflections in the international contemporary while seeking to understand individual/collective reactions to change through a series of creative methodologies.

CLAES BELFRAGE is Lecturer in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Swansea, UK GRAEME GILLOCH is Reader in the Department of Sociology, University of Lancaster, UK RENATE HOLUB is Director of Interdisciplinary Studies at University of California, Berkeley, US ELIZABETH HOWIE is Assistant Professor of Art History in the Visual Arts Department of Coastal Carolina University, US PETRA HROCH is a PhD student in the Department of Sociology at the University of Alberta, Canada ESTHER LESLIE is Professor in Political Aesthetics in the School of English and Humanities at Birkbeck, University of London, UK ANCA PUSCA is Lecturer in the Department of Politics at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK ZOË THOMPSON is a PhD student in the Department of Sociology at the University of Birmingham, UK KONSTANTINOS VASSILIOU is a PhD student at the University of Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris, France ROLANDO VASQUEZ is Assistant Professor in Sociology at the Roosevelt Academy, Utrecht University, Netherlands