flaneur

is a form of cultural archaeology that mines through the masking facades of capital, a slicing of 'strata' to recover submerged pasts.

Benjamin conceives flanerie as a form of cultural archaeology that mines through the masking facades of capital, a slicing of 'strata' to recover submerged pasts, surveying these counteraesthetics will also work backward in time. . . ' (Devin Zuber 'flanerie at ground zero') .

is representative of a mode of perceiving/walking/writing that exposes the masking mechanisms of capital... it represents a kind of 'ideleness' that demonstrates against the division of labor.

a mode of perceing/walking/writing that exposes the masking mechnisms of capital. the flaneurs perceptive knowledge becomes 'akin to the occult science of industrial fluctuations,' his aesthetic meditations and meanderings an ideleness demonstrating against the division of labor.' (zuber 276).

is the alienated romantic fascinated by all that horrifies his gaze. As a vocational idler resisting the work ethic that drives capital. As a suspect he is delinquent from conventional social responsibility... as a detective he treats urbanism as riddle and crime. As a journalist he bears witness... as nostalgist, he is the last incarnation of the sandwich-man.

The flâneur, who combines an assortment of roles in which the hero appears on the stage of the nineteenth century in the guise of the dandy. The dandy is not a snob. As the observer of the marketplace, he acknowledges the pull of what is resisted. As vocational idler [AP 427], he resist the work ethic that drives capital. As suspect [420], he is delinquent from conventional social responsibility... as detective [442], he treats urbanism as riddle and crime. As journalist [446], he bears witness... as nostalgist, he is the last incarnation of the sandwich-man [448, 451]. For Benjamin, he is the alienated romantic fascinated by all that horrifies his gaze. He is the trace of an aura close to evanescence.' (Patke 2000:13).

is the strolling aimless urban drifter and consumer 'taking in the story of things'. He is a militant radical whose idleness is opposed to capitalist productivity.

The strolling urban consumer, neurasthenic, a bit of a dandy, sums up the anonymity of the modern city and its economy, which have imposed new conditions of experience. Strolling the streets is almost a new way of philosophizing, and the tireless aimless drifter knows that the city has an underground history that only he can connect to. At the same time the flâneur is a militant radical in so far as his idleness is opposed to the model of capitalist productivity. Strolling around is a way of taking in the story of things.' (net)

is a type for whom , around 1840 it was briefly fashionable to take turtles for a walk in the arcades, as they liked to have the turtles set the pace for them.

There was the pedestrian who wedged himself into the crowd, but there was also the flneur who demanded elbow room and was unwilling to forego the life of the gentleman of leisure. His leisurely appearance as a personality is his protest against the division of labour which makes people into specialists. it was also his protest against their industriousness. Around 1840 it was briefly fashionable to take turtles for a walk in the arcades. the flneurs liked to have the turtles set the pace for them.

's leisurely appearance and personality is his protest against the division of labour which makes people into specialists and their industriousness.

is, in contrast to the pedestrian who wedged himself into the crowd, the man who demanded elbow room and was unwilling to forego the life of the gentleman of leisure.

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