Walter Benjamin: Fascism and Crisis

The context of economic crisis and rising fascism cast a long, and fatal, shadow over Walter Benjamin's world. This shadow strangely prefigures contemporary problems, with the economy once more in crisis and the far right on the rise. In the fourth of his eight-part series, Andrew Robinson discusses Benjamin's analyses of the effects of economic crisis on everyday life in Germany, and his account of fascism as the 'aestheticisation of politics'.

Immanent Critiques: The Frankfurt School under Pressure

Mad Berlin: Revisiting Dr. Caligari in the Wake of Fascism

PDF) Blasting the past: A rereading of Walter Benjamin's theses on the philosophy of history

Zadie Smith and the Difficulty of Quick-Response Art - The Atlantic

Walter benjamin german hi-res stock photography and images - Alamy

DOC) “Politicizing Art”: Benjamin's Redemptive Critique of Technology in the Age of Fascism

The State of Emergency as the Rule and Not the Exception: crisis conditions and exploitative lawmaking during COVID-19 and beyond - London School of Economics and Political Science

Ernest Mandel (1968): Trotsky's theory of fascism

Capitalism and the Aesthetics of Fascism – Institute for Christian Socialism

Material and Concepts: working methods and theoretical relations of Walter Benjamin – IIPSS – International Institute for Philosophy and Social Studies