Thursday, March 29, 2007

The Path to Success; thesis 1.3

This post proposes a link between Walter Benjamin (WB), Auden and Catherine Sullivan. In WB's thesis for success 'presence of mind' (power) in financial wizards etc is revealed via the body or gestures. Auden chooses not to write poetry about these wizards because what they do is less to do with character than with the quantity of 'impersonal force at their disposal'.Catherine Sullivan presents a selection of these gestures in her video

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