Following the spirit of Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project, this volume acts as a kaleidoscope of change in the 21st century, tracing its different reflections in the international contemporary while seeking to understand both individual and collective reactions and adjustments to change through a series of questions: Is there something significantly different about the way in which 'change' occurs in the 21st century?; Is change mainly reflected in the material and visual environment surrounding us or someplace else?; What are the sensibilities through which we perceive change, and more importantly, have those sensibilities been increased or dulled by modern technology?

ANCA M. PUSCA is Lecturer in International Studies at Goldsmiths University of London, UK. Her publications include Revolution, Democratic Transition and Disillusionment,European Union: Promises and Challenges of a New Enlargement.

List of Illustrations	p. vii
Acknowledgements	p. viii
List of Contributors	p. ix
Aesthetics of Change: An Introduction	p. 1
Towards a Global Space of Democratic Rights: On Benjamin, Gramsci, and Polanyi	p. 10
Erasing the Traces, Tracing Erasures: Cultural Memory and Belonging in Newcastle/Gateshead, UK	p. 55
'Sunshine and Noir': Benjamin, Kracauer and Roth Visit the 'White Cities'	p. 82
Liquidation and Shattering: Aesthetics and Politics in Cold Climates	p. 95
Fashion and Its 'Revolutions' in Walter Benjamin's Arcades	p. 108
Proof of the Forgotten: A Benjaminian Reading of Daguerre's Two Views of the Boulevard du Temple	p. 127
Commodity Display and the Phantasmagoria of Modernity: Exploring Walter Benjamin's Critique of History	p. 144
The Aura of Art After the Advent of the Digital	p. 158
Towards a Benjaminist Political Economy	p. 171
Conclusion	p. 193
Index	p. 198
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