Radio Benjamin Nordengland Vidal Benjamin

Vidal Benjamin

might we come to see the buildings

'The wisest book I've read for many years

and Pieter Hugo have emerged during the fiftieth anniversary of independence for many African countries

—New York Times Book Review

Radio Benjamin Nordengland Vidal BenjaminThe German critic was not only a theorist of the media he was a gifted broadcaster as well. Financial Times Walter Benjamin was fascinated by the impact of new technology on culture, an interest that extended beyond his renowned critical essays. From 1927 to 33, he wrote and presented something in the region of eighty broadcasts using the new medium of radio. Radio Benjamin gathers the surviving transcripts, which appear here for the first time in