tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post3643547312444379573..comments2024-03-18T22:27:20.948-04:00Comments on Murder is Everywhere: Being a Flaneur in ParisOvidia Yuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05749549092493567689noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-30067805543064512022014-06-04T16:20:46.226-04:002014-06-04T16:20:46.226-04:00I think you scared Everett away. He probably thoug...I think you scared Everett away. He probably thought you were asking "Are you ever a flasher?"<br /><br />I envy your walk down those streets I once knew. I soon expect to find a line or two of Aimee Leduc's wisdom mounted in places of prominence in every Paris arrondismont.Jeffrey Sigerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00718317707555064653noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-76804773898841916992014-06-03T13:15:39.729-04:002014-06-03T13:15:39.729-04:00Insightful comments Michael - I've got Benjami...Insightful comments Michael - I've got Benjamin's book will need to find itAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-41735190163548684712014-06-03T12:03:05.275-04:002014-06-03T12:03:05.275-04:00Lovely pictures. Reminds me of Walter Benjamin cla...Lovely pictures. Reminds me of Walter Benjamin claim that the flâneur was an unprecedented creation of modernity. In commenting on Baudelaire he wrote:<br /><br />"The crowd was the veil from behind which the familiar city as phantasmagoria beckoned to the flâneur. In it, the city was now landscape, now a room."<br /><br />Benjamin was both critical of the flâneur while himself engaging in flânerie himself while working on the Arcades project.Michael Niemannhttp://michael-niemann.comnoreply@blogger.com