Walter Benjamin had much to say about the intelligentsia, from vicious reviews such as “Left-Wing Melancholy” to the more programmatic essays “Author as Producer” and the Artwork essay. But while the specific allegiances, the “strategies” in the literary battle have been plotted with great precision, a larger debate in which these texts repre…[Read more]

Dissertation proposal for a graduate thesis in the history of art that examines large-scale changes in the organizational patterns and artistic strategies of reproductive printmakers and publishers in the Netherlands during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The proposal outlines a literature review of historical network analysis in relation…[Read more]