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episode 15: The Angel of History: Walter Benjamin, Myth, Rationality, and Modernity-- With Patrick from the Radical Thoughts Podcast
This week we sat down with Patrick of the Radical Thoughts Podcast to talk about Walter Benjamin and his ideas of myth and rationality, capitalism as religion, and a number of other disconnected things that were just fun to talk about.
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Capitalism and Religion-
https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/2018/06/08/capitalism-as-religion-benjamin-1921/
Benjamin, Walter, et al. Selected writings. Cambridge, Mass: Belknap Press, 1996.
Benjamin, Walter, and Rolf Tiedemann. The arcades project. Cambridge, Mass: Belknap Press, 1999. Print.
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