Walter Benjamin

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is a man born under the sign of Saturn, the star of the slowest revolution, the planet of detours and delays.

I came into the world under the sign of Saturn — the star of the slowest revolution, the planet of detours and delays.

is interested in analyzing how sense perception has been changed by technology.

In his writing on the nature of modernity Benjamin is interested in analysing 'a sense perception that has been changed by technology' (Benjamin 1974: 235) or as he puts it in an essay on the French poet Charles Baudelaire, he is interested in the way in which 'technology has subjected the human sensorium to a complex kind of training' (Benjamin 1974: 171).

is interested in how technology has subjected the human sensorium to a complex kind of training.

is a thinker informed by the presupposition that technology generates new forms' and that technological form precipitates social form.

Walter Benjamin's theoretical and philosophical writing is informed by the presupposition that 'technology generates new forms' and that 'Technological form precipitates social form' (Leslie 2000: xi).

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Walter Benjamin