Atlas / Constelaciones [3ª edición]

El Círculo de Bellas Artes This highly successful volume is now in its third edition. The film is available on DVD. Constellations It is an attempt to explore, through images, some central concepts in the work of the German philosopher Walter Benjamin (1892-1940). It comprises a collection of audiovisual citations (film scenes, photographs, paintings, sound recordings, animations, historical documents, etc.) interwoven with significant texts. Constellations It reproduces a strategy, based on collage and montage, that Benjamin himself developed in various works. Almost all of the materials used have some kind of historiographical basis in his ideas or his life.

El Walter Benjamin AtlasThe Atlas, for its part, is a CD-ROM tool that allows users to navigate a collection of texts linked by hyperlinks. Its aim is to reveal some of the major threads of meaning that run through Benjamin's thought and that are often difficult to detect in his characteristically heterogeneous and less academic writing. The Atlas is based on a selection of more than 1.200 concepts that occupied Walter Benjamin's thoughts and more than 900 fragments that cover very different themes and periods. In this way, it proposes a dialogic mapping that complements the traditional reading of his work.

Both albums are accompanied by an essay or "reading proposal" by César Rendueles and Ana Useros that reflects on the motifs and references used in the documentary film.

Atlas / Constellations [3rd edition] | Walter Benjamin

Author
Walter Benjamin
Collection
Exhibitions
pages:
104
Dimensions
17 x 24 cm · Case with DVD and CD-Rom