The Ultimate Horror Collection: 60+ Novels and Stories from H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, M.R. James, Bram Stoker, Henry James, Mary Shelley, and more. Illustrated: Frankenstein; Dracula; Jekyll and Hyde; Carmilla; The Fall of the House of Usher; The Call of Cthulhu; The Turn of the Screw; The Mezzotint; and more
The walker in the city sees many things and understands few of them. Snatches of conversation, glimpses of hap- penings, intuitions of relations pass in kaleidoscopic varia- tion. Amidst this cascade of mostly trivial experiences there are a few gems, moments of significance that deserve to be remembered or perhaps photographed. The significant moments are signalled by a shock, the shock of the unexpected or bizarre or profound.
Shock appears in the writings of the culture critic Walter
Benjamin as an essential category of modern life. The city is the place of chance encounter, of the stimulus of the new, of the visible movement of time as fashions change with startling rapidity. With Baudelaire as his guide, Benjamin explores the world of the flaneur. Shock is the emphatic presence of the crowd, the sudden glance of recognition between strangers, the vacant lot where used to be a building, the parade of bums and beggars.
The flaneur with a camera can record a small sample of
this rich field of urban life. The photographer edits reali- ty, leaving context on the cutting room floor. Only the essential moment remains, and it is often as incompre- hensible as it is evocative. If its original shock value pass- es through the lens something is preserved from the ephemera of the street. This exhibit presents the enig- matic results. Painter Painted Paris
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Hidden Beauty San Jose
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Blue Buddha Santa Fe
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Buddha Watches La Jolla
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California Reading San Diego
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Before the Show Paris
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Pride on Show Paris
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Dance of Color San Diego
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Cafe Color Paris
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Line of Sight Rome
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Steady Aim Nara
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Long and Winding Marin
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Big Deal Santa Fe
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Father and Daughter Napa
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Saudade Paris
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Flying Fish La Jolla
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Shut Out Mexico City
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Sweet Dreams Paris
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Light and Shadow La Jolla
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Patience San Diego
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Kenzo Paris
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Wedding Coronado
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No Stopping San Jose
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Notre Dame Paris
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Romance La Jolla
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Before the Concert Tokyo
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Hands Paris
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The Point La jolla
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Writ Large Paris
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Larger Paris
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Masks Paris
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Eclipse Paris
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A-paco-lypse Paris
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The Constant Spectator Paris
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Cine Citta Rome
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The Power of Art Tokyo
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Success Tokyo
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Anima Paris
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Girl Power Tokyo
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Little Devils Paris
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Mc Do Kyoto
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Nude Paris
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The Apero Vaison-la-Romaine
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Drinking Buddies La Jolla
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Boshi Tokyo
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Kimono Time Tokyo
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So Lovely Tokyo
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The Guys Tokyo
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Book End La Jolla
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The enigmas exhibit opened February 3, 2005 at the Exposure Gallery 851 beatty street, Vancouver British Columbia, Canada.
Photo: Sharon Weremiuk
Andrew Feenberg is Canada Research Chair in the Philosophy of Technology in the School of Communication of Simon Fraser University. He has taught at San Diego State University, the University of California, Irvine, the University of Paris, the University of Tokyo, Duke University and the State University of New York at Buffalo.
He is the author of Heidegger and Marcuse, Transforming
Technology, Questioning Technology, Alternative Modernity, Lukács, Marx and the Sources of Critical Theory, co-author of When Poetry Ruled the Streets, and co-editor of Technology and the Politics of Knowledge, Community in the Digital Age, and Modernity and Technology. He lives in Vancouver, British Columbia and La Jolla, California.
The Ultimate Horror Collection: 60+ Novels and Stories from H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, M.R. James, Bram Stoker, Henry James, Mary Shelley, and more. Illustrated: Frankenstein; Dracula; Jekyll and Hyde; Carmilla; The Fall of the House of Usher; The Call of Cthulhu; The Turn of the Screw; The Mezzotint; and more