无私无畏追求真理的王稼祥

今年8月15日是伟大的马克思主义者、无私无畏的无产阶级革命家、外交家王稼祥同志诞辰100周年. 新中国成立后,王稼祥同志被任命为首任驻苏联大使和外交部副部长.1951年起,王稼祥同志担任了十余年中联部部长.     

The Ur-History of Media Space: Walter Benjamin and the Information Industry in Nineteenth-Century Paris

This essay is primarily concerned with Walter Benjamin’s analysis of the newspaper as a media space with reference to privatization of urban space, industrialization of public communication, and mediazation of public space in nineteenth-century Paris. I seek to show how the information industry brought about the fundamental changes in literary practice, intellectual activity, and the formation of a new social subject. I also demonstrate how Benjamin’s rich illustration of the complex dynamics of media space in the nineteenth century largely avoids the shortcomings of oversimplification embedded in the analysis of the bourgeois public sphere. In doing so, I argue Benjamin’s critical analysis that the newspaper provides a systematic framework by which to examine the intersection between the media space and the urban experience in a digital age.