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Interesting comment! I’m not the author of the article, but I know them. I think her perspective is that we are free to imagine arcades within the web construct
by aabhay 7y ago
Interesting comment! I’m not the author of the article, but I know them. I think her perspective is that we are free to imagine arcades within the web construct, flaneuring through the images and ideas in an ambulatory way, trying to grasp the totality in different ways. I take it as an antithesis to the more common interpretation of the web as a filter bubble. I think like all of Benjamin’s work, there’s a performative element — he’s not simply trying to extract the truth of the matter but rather encouraging us towards a more ‘adventurous’ being.