The Lost Diagrams of Walter Benjamin – Edited by Dr Sharon Kivland and Helen Clarke
| Title: | The Lost Diagrams of Walter Benjamin |
| Publisher: | MA BIBLIOTHÈQUE, Anagram Books |
| Editors: | Dr Sharon Kivland and Helen Clarke |
| Authors: | Essays by Helen Clarke, Sam Dolbear, and Christian A. Wollin |
| Publication date: | 2017 |
| Print ISBN: | 978-1-910055-36-6 |
| Format: | 205mm x 140mm, paperback |
| Number of pages: | 120 |
In A Berlin Chronicle Walter Benjamin describes his autobiography as a space to be walked (indeed, it is a labyrinth, with entrances he calls primal acquaintances). The contributors to The Lost Diagrams respond to the invitation to accompany Benjamin in reproducing the web of connections of his diagram, which, once lost (he was inconsolable), was never fully redrawn. They translate his words into maps, trees, lists, and constellations. Their diagrams, after Benjamin, are fragments, scribbles, indexes, bed covers, and body parts. Subjectivities sharpen and blur, merge and redefine, scatter and recollect.
Benjamin writes: ‘Whatever cross connections are finally established between these systems also depends on the inter-twinements of our path through life’.
Contributions by:Cos Ahmet, Alberto Alessi, Sam Ayres, Patrizia Bach, Martin Beutler,Riccardo Boglione,Vibe Bredahl, Pavel Buchler & Nina Chua, Emma Cheatle, cris cheek, Kirsten Cooke, Anne-Marie Creamer, Amy Cutler, Vincent Dachy, Matthew Dowell, Joanna Leah Geldard, Theresa Goessmann, Michael Hampton, Ronny Hardliz, Miranda Iossifidis, Joe Jefford, Dean Kenning, Tracy Mackenna, Bevis Martin & Charlie Youle, John McDowall, Katharine Meynell, Paul O’Kane, Hephzibah Rendle-Short, Mark Riley, Katya Robin, Hattie Salisbury, Isabella Streffen, Stefan Szczelkun, George Themistokleous, Monique Ulrich, Emmanuelle Waeckerle, Matthew Wang, Julie Warburton, Alexander White, Lada Wilson, Louise K. Wilson, Mark Wingrave, Mary Yacoob.
The book will be launched at the Miss Read Berlin Art Book Festival on 14 July 2017.
Find out more about Sharon Kivland’s work here.
Dr Sharon Kivland is a Reader in Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam University.
Helen Clarke is a Heritage Consortium doctoral student, supervised by both Casey Orr (Leeds Beckett University) and Sharon Kivland.