Walter Benjamin

Person · Open Library

Born

15 July 1892

Died

27 September 1940

Works

406

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United Kingdom

Active from

1913-11-22

Active to

1976-12-04

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

2,506

Total plays

29,163

Walter Benjamin is a modern songwriter, just like the Modern Rock Song by Belle & Sebastian. He uses samplers and synths on his songs, along with a cheap acoustic guitar and a cheap sounding voice. Walter Benjamin was born in the spring, although he doesn't remember where. He is now a member of Goodbye Toulouse, the Lisbon based folk collective, where he plays synths and samplers. Walter Benjamin is actually a piano player although noone has ever seen him play the piano. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Walter+Benjamin">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis

   · 2012 · cited 65,105x

2. Gene set enrichment analysis: A knowledge-based approach for interpreting genome-wide expression profiles

   · 2005 · cited 47,858x

3. DADA2: High-resolution sample inference from Illumina amplicon data

   · 2016 · cited 31,680x

4. PLINK: A Tool Set for Whole-Genome Association and Population-Based Linkage Analyses

   · 2007 · cited 30,842x

5. The Iron Cage Revisited: Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organizational Fields

   · 1983 · cited 30,468x

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Quotes

• “Nothing is so hateful to the philistine as the "dreams of his youth." ... For what appeared to him in his dreams was the voice of the spirit, calling him once, as it does everyone. It is of this that youth always reminds him, eternally and ominously. That is why he is antagonistic toward youth.”
• “Because he never raises his eyes to the great and the meaningful, the philistine has taken experience as his gospel. It has become for him a message about life's commonness. But he has never grasped that there exists something other than experience, that there are values—inexperienceable—which we serve.”
• “Jede Äußerung menschlichen Geisteslebens kann als eine Art der Sprache aufgefaßt werden, und diese Auffassung erschließt nach Art einer wahrhaften Methode überall neue Fragestellungen.”
• “Zur Verknechtung der Sprache im Geschwätz tritt die Verknechtung der Dinge in der Narretei fast als deren unausbleibliche Folge.”
• “I would like to metamorphose into a mouse-mountain.”
• “Things are only mannequins and even the great world-historical events are only costumes beneath which they exchange glances with nothingness.”

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Wikidata facts

Image

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