Walter Benjamin and the Aesthetics of Change

CLAES BELFRAGE is Lecturer in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Swansea, UK GRAEME GILLOCH is Reader in the Department of Sociology, University of Lancaster, UK RENATE HOLUB is Director of Interdisciplinary Studies at University of California, Berkeley, US ELIZABETH HOWIE is Assistant Professor of Art History in the Visual Arts Department of Coastal Carolina University, US PETRA HROCH is a PhD student in the Department of Sociology at the University of Alberta, Canada ESTHER LESLIE is Professor in Political Aesthetics in the School of English and Humanities at Birkbeck, University of London, UK ANCA PUSCA is Lecturer in the Department of Politics at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK ZOË THOMPSON is a PhD student in the Department of Sociology at the University of Birmingham, UK KONSTANTINOS VASSILIOU is a PhD student at the University of Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris, France ROLANDO VASQUEZ is Assistant Professor in Sociology at the Roosevelt Academy, Utrecht University, Netherlands

• Aesthetics of Change: An Introduction; A.Pusca Towards a Global Space of Democratic Rights: On Benjamin, Gramsci, and Polanyi; R.Holub Erasing the Traces, Tracing Erasures: Cultural Memory and Belonging in Newcastle/Gateshead, UK;  Z.Thompson 'Sunshine and Noir': Benjamin, Kracauer and Roth visit the 'White Cities';  G.Gilloch Liquidation and Shattering: Aesthetics and Politics in Cold Climates;  E.Leslie Fashion and Its 'Revolutions' in Walter Benjamin's Arcades ;  P.Hroch Proof of the Forgotten: A Benjaminian Reading of Daguerre's Two Views of the Boulevard du Temple;  E.Howie Commodity Display and the Phantasmagoria of Modernity: Exploring Walter Benjamin's Critique of History;  R.Vasquez The Aura of Art After the Advent of the Digital;  K.Vassiliou Towards a Benjaminist Political Economy;  C.Belfrage Conclusion; A.Pusca