jetztzeit

is a window briefly open on the past, certain elements of art that are only 'now' recognizable, that never were before and never will be again.

I have thereby, in a decisive example, realized my theory of knowledge that is crystallized in the concept I have [previously] handled very esoterically, the 'now of recognition.' I have discovered those elements of the art of the nineteenth century that are only 'now' recognizable, that never were before and never will be again' (letter, Benjamin to Gretel Karplus, 9 October 1935, V, p. 1148). (in Buck-Morse 392).

is an explosive flash of possibilities latent in the past, realized only in a present field, unfolding for the topographical consciousness of the flaneur.

Jetztzeit ('now-time')-- an explosive flash of possiblitlties latent in the past, realized only in a present field. -- unfolds for the topographical consciousness of his flaneur,' (Zuber 'flanerie at ground zero'273)

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jetztzeit