The Ur-History of Media Space: Walter Benjamin and the Information Industry in Nineteenth-Century Paris |
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Authors: | Jaeho Kang |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Media Studies and Film and Department of Sociology, The New School, New York, NY, USA |
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Abstract: | 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. |
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Keywords: | Media space Phantasmagoria Urban space Spectacle Storytelling Information Newspaper Communication Mediated public sphere |
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