Also (on the eve [Eve] of the millennium): Karl Marx, "Results of the Immediate Process of Production" Appendix to Capital vol. 1, 1976 translated by Ben Fowkes. (discussion of formal and real subsumption) Susan Buck-Morss, "The Flaneur, the Sandwichman and the Whore: The Politics of Loitering," New German Critique, Fall 1986. Walter Benjamin, The Arcades Project, 1999, translated by Howard Eiland and Kevin McLaughlin, Prepared by Rolf Tiedemann. Strolling through town yesterday I dropped into a bookstore where I sold a load of books last month and thus had a credit. I was thinking of doing some Christmas shopping. The first thing I saw was Benjamin's Arcades Project. My gift buying intentions went out the window. It so happens that I undertook a PhD program at Cornell in 1987 expressly to study at the feet of Susan Buck-Morss and to read Benjamin's Passagenwerk, which at that time, of course, was not yet translated. It took about a month and a half for me to realize that the school I had enrolled in would not permit me to pursue the scholarship for which its faculty had presumably admitted me. One of the bizarre incidents that demonstrated this to me was the German class where I was progressing quite satisfactorilly according to my own assessment and purpose, which was reading German, but was "failing" because the instructor's grading system emphasized one's precision at translating English into grammatically correct German. Tom Walker Sandwichman and Deconsultant Bowen Island (604) 947-2213
