The concept of progress must be grounded in the idea of catastrophe. That things are 'status quo' is the catastrophe
Walter BenjaminOwnership is the most intimate relationship that one can have to objects. Not that they come alive in him; it is he who lives in them.
Walter BenjaminWork on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.
Walter BenjaminIt is the task of the translator to release in his own language that pure language that is under the spell of another, to liberate the language imprisoned in a work in his re-creation of that work.
Walter Benjamin