TRANSIT

This six-and-a-half-minute video, Flânerie , is an audiovisual projection of a number of themes in Convolute M (“The Flâneur ”) of Walter Benjamin's The Arcades Project , with a focus on the flâneur ’s “kaleidoscopic consciousness” and experience of the crowd, as well as on the “colportage phenomenon of space.” It is one of nine chapters in a longer celebration and elaboration in digital video of Benjamin’s unfinished masterpiece, which is entitled Walter Benjamin’s Paris: Projecting the Arcades .