Walter Benjamin’s Last Hike
The day we hiked Benjamin’s last trail, hundreds of thousands of refugees were desperate to get into Europe.
Sentier de la Liberté Walter Benjamin

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Arcades ProjectThe Dialectics of Seeing
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Angelus Novus
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Illuminations
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