Walter Benjamin, “The Antinomies of Allegorical Exegesis” (excerpted from the Trauerspiel), in The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media, eds. Michael W Jennings, Brigid Doherty, and Thomas Y Levin (Cambridge, MA, and London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2008), 175-179.

or, a twelve-week seminar on a four page text, to be slowly developed here, writing-after-the-disaster.