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Habits of Distraction

Paperback • 2018 • 1. edition

Habits of Distraction

By Michael Wood

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About the book

The thoughts traced in this book may seem a little complicated but the project itself is simple. It is to see what sort of weight and extension Walter Benjamin's phrase 'reception in distraction' can be seen to bear in changing contexts. The book first looks at the theoretical contours of the phrase, and several of its relatives, in the work of Benjamin and Barthes, with a glance at a prehistory in Proust and others. It then closely considers some different objects of reception and different for...Show more

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9781845192501

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Sussex Academic Press

Published year

2018

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