I was recently reviewing my notes on this short Walter Benjamin class I’m taking, and next to several doodles of sailboats was the phrase “there is an ideal society: Dinotopia.” And you know what? I think I finally get Walter Benjamin.
There is no document of Dinotopia that is not at the same time a document of barbarism.
—On The Concept of History, Wal…
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