Crowds: A Response to Baudelaire, Poe, and Benjamin

Questions you may choose to guide you in this week’s blog response:

• What kind of relationship do Baudelaire and Poe create between individual and city? How is this related to Benjamin’s ideas about the work of art?
• Examine or close read a quote from one of the texts. Why was this quote a space of tension for you in the text?
• Can you give an example of the Work of Art in our day and age and its (your example) Mechanical Reproducibility?

Please post your response as a comment to this initial post !