Jules Verne: Journey to the Moon Somehow I have a feeling…
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Jules Verne: Journey to the Moon
Somehow I have a feeling the sole purpose of this review was to name-drop Walter Benjamin at the end:
"Walter Benjamin never wrote much about Verne, but his idea of wish-images (*Wunschbilder*) – objects, architectural spaces, technologies and fantasies that manifest a society’s unconscious desires – offers a way of grasping how Verne staged his era. Certainly, the Baltimore Gun Club is busy making wish-images. Its fantasies are not irrational, however, but hyper-rational. It is this quality that finds expression in Verne’s endless calculations, his clubs and organisations with their elaborate rules of order, his cost breakdowns and status updates. Rationality becomes, ironically, a way of re-enchanting the world."
Like you cannot review an old novel anymore without a passing reference to one of the sacred cows of critical theory, to establish your hivemind credentials.
#entertainment
Somehow I have a feeling the sole purpose of this review was to name-drop Walter Benjamin at the end:
"Walter Benjamin never wrote much about Verne, but his idea of wish-images (*Wunschbilder*) – objects, architectural spaces, technologies and fantasies that manifest a society’s unconscious desires – offers a way of grasping how Verne staged his era. Certainly, the Baltimore Gun Club is busy making wish-images. Its fantasies are not irrational, however, but hyper-rational. It is this quality that finds expression in Verne’s endless calculations, his clubs and organisations with their elaborate rules of order, his cost breakdowns and status updates. Rationality becomes, ironically, a way of re-enchanting the world."
Like you cannot review an old novel anymore without a passing reference to one of the sacred cows of critical theory, to establish your hivemind credentials.
#entertainment
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