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CHAPTER 1 LOCATING MEDIA PRACTICES

1. Simmel (1909/1994: 10).
2. ‘Digital age’ and ‘information society’ have become widespread expressions. Castells (1996) argues
that the late modern world is a ‘network society’, and Hardt and Negri (2000: 294) point out that
today ‘productivity, wealth, and the creation of social surpluses take the form of cooperative inter-
activity through linguistic, communicational, and affective networks’.
3. See for instance Couldry and McCarthy (2004) and Falkheimer and Jansson (2006).
4. A full Swedish translation was published in 1990, the English one in 1999.
5. His famous 1936 essay ‘The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction’ is itself
frequently reproduced, for instance in Benjamin (1969/1999: 211ff). For relevant analyses of
media history, see Thompson (1995), Peters (1999) and Hörisch (2001).
6. Autobiographical sketches including combinations of urban and media memories are found in
Benjamin (1950/2002) and (1955/1997). His theses on the philosophy of history are included in
Benjamin (1969/1999: 245ff).
7. See Ricoeur (1985/1988) on the relationship between historical and fictional times.
8. Benjamin (1982/1999: 544).
9. Benjamin (1982/1999: 4).
10. Gilroy (1997), Bauman (2000).
11. Benjamin (1982/1999: 10).
12. Benjamin (1982/1999: 63f).
13. Benjamin (1982/1999: 540, slightly varied on p. 874).
14. Benjamin (1982/1999: 460).
15. Stallybrass and White (1986: 27–37).
16. Hardt and Negri (2000: 44f).
17. Nava (1998: 188).
18. Nava (2002: 85 and 94).
19. For historical mappings of shopping environments, see Benjamin (1982/1999), Bowlby (1987),
McCracken (1988/1990), Goss (1993), Lancaster (1995), Bjurström et al. (2000: 46ff).
20. Caygill (1998: 148).
21. Benjamin (1982/1999: 89).
22. Benjamin (1982/1999: 406; see also p. 839).
23. The Passages project started with a workshop in 1996 and then organized, full-scale field research
from 1998, engaging in all eighteen scholars from various disciplines in a large number of studies
in and around Solna Centre and its media shops. The project concluded in 2004. It was funded by
the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation and was first placed at the Department of