Zeppelins

A Zeppelin is a Graf Zeppelin The first zeppelin built by Zeppelin The most successful Zeppelins 

the WWI Zeppelins Built by the Zeppelin Company Count Ferdinand Zeppelin the first Zeppelin raid 

two Zeppelins were brought down

Forster, E.M. Anonymity: An Inquiry

".. all literature tends towards a condition of anonymity, and that, so far as words are creative, a signature merely distracts us from their true significance. I do not say literature 'ought' not be signed, because literature is alive, and consequently 'ought' is the wrong word to use. It wants not to be signed.. .. It is always tugging in that direction and saying in effect: 'I, not my author, exist really.'

"Literature does not want to remember. It is alive - not in a vague complimentary sense - but alive tenaciously, and it is always covering up the tracks that connect it with the laboratory."

Anonymity: An Inquiry p. 90 What I believe.

Benjamin, Walter - The Ragpicker - Historical refuse

"Here we have a man whose job it is to gather the day's refuse in the capital. Everything that the big city has thrown away, everything it has lost, everything it has scorned, everything it has crushed underfoot he catalogues and collects. He collates the annals of intemperance, the capharnaum of waste. He sorts things out and selects judiciously: he collects like a miser like a miser guarding a treasure, refuse which will assume the shape of useful or gratifying objects between the jaws of the goddess of Industry." This description is one extended metaphor for the poetic method, as Baudelaire practiced it. Ragpicker and poet: both are concerned with refuse

SW 4, p. 48

Method of this project: literary montage. I needn't say anything. Merely show. I shall purloin no valuables, appropriate no ingenious formulations. But the rags, the refuse-these I will not inventory but allow, in the only way possible, to come into their own: by making use of them.

AP, p. 460

Walter Benjamin's Archive p. 251

The Arcades project wishes to pick up the refuse of history. Like a poor and burdened man cleverly picking through the rubbish of the previous day, the materialist historian selects from amongst all that is disregarded and from the residues of history. At the library he is unconcerned with what has been accredited as precious and valuable, but rather is drawn towards historical refuse. Waste materials are to enter into significant connections and fragments are used to gain a new perspective on history.

The Arcades project never made it as far as a composition. It fell through, disintegrating in the collectors hands. The more he collected, the further away shifted any possibility of finding some presentational form for the material.

p. 252, 253.

Benjamin, Walther - Concept of the Archive

Benjamin's concept of the archive, however, differs from that of the institutionalized archives, whose self-understanding is derived from the origin of the word "archive." "Archive" stems from the greek and latin words for "town hall, ruling office," which, in turn, are derived from "beginning, origin, rule" Order, efficiency, completeness, and objectivity are the principles of archival work. In contrast to this, Benjamins archives reveal the passions of the collector. The remains heaped up in them are reserve funds or something like iron reserves, crucial to life, and which for that reason must be conserved. These are points at which topicality flashes up, places that preserve the idiosyncratic registrations of an author, subjective, full of gaps, unofficial.

Benjamin, Walter - a Magic encyclopedia

'Comprehensiveness was neither possible nor sought after'

'Benjamin believed that the basis of collecting does not lie in "exactness," in "silk reeling" or "the complete inventorizing of all data" (GS III, p. 216). Peculiar to the collector is "a relationship to objects which does not emphasize their functional, utilitarian value-that is their usefulness-but studies and loves than as the scene, the stage of their fate" (SW 2:2 p.487).

Benjamin designates the true passion of the collector as "anarchistic, destructive." He affiliates fidelity to the thing with "the wilfully subversive protest against the typical, classifiable." Possession of a thing generates completely irrational accents. For the collector his item, its origin and past all close ranks as " a magic encyclopedia, a world ordering, whose outline is the fate of the object" (GS III pp. 216f)

Walter Benjamin's Archive p.4 and 5.

Goldsmith, Kenneth

"At one point, I envisioned making all the invisible language in the air around us material. At any given moment, there’s language flying all around us that we are not aware of: think of radio waves and cellular phone connections, TV signals, etc.."

"I began to obsess on the amount of language being produced by individuals. What would happen if all the language were somehow materialized?"

"I wanted to write a book that I would never be able to know. The approach I took was that of quantity. I’d collect so many words that each time I’d open my book, I’d be surprised by something that I had forgotten was there. What constitutes a big book? I looked on my bookshelf for clues. I found that any dictionary worth its salt was at least 600 pages so with that in mind, I decided that I would write a 600 page book. I did. And in the end, the project was a failure. I got to know every word so well over the four years that it took to write it that I am bored by the book. I can’t open a page and be surprised. Perhaps quantity was the wrong approach."

Kenneth Goldsmith:

I look to theory only when I realize that somebody has dedicated their entire life to a question I have only fleetingly considered (a work in progress)

Harvey, David. The Right to the city

"The suburbanization of the United States was not merely a matter of new infrastructures. As in Second Empire Paris, it entailed a radical transformation in lifestyles, bringing new products from housing to refrigerators and air conditioners, as well as two cars in the driveway and an enormous increase in the consumption of oil. It also altered the political landscape as subsidized home-ownership for the middle classes changed the focus of community action towards the defense of property values and individualized identities, turning the suburban vote towards conservative republicanism. Debt-encumbered homeowners, it was argued, were less likely to go on strike. This project successfully absorbed the surplus and assured social stability, albeit at the cost of hollowing out the inner cities and generating urban unrest amongst those, chiefly African-Americans, who were denied access to the new prosperity."