Walter Benjamin writing on paper money:
And Shakespeare, really really 'on' the money.
‘A descriptive analysis of banknotes needs to be made. A book whose boundless satirical power would be equalled only by the power of its objectivity. The fact is, nowhere more than on such vouchers does capitalism naively come across in all its deadly earnest. The young innocents at play among numbers here, the goddess figures holding tablets of the law, the elderly heroes sheathing their swords in the face of currency units -- the whole thing is a world apart: the facade architecture of hell. Had Lichtenburg found paper money prevalent, the plan of this system would not have escaped him.’ (Walter Benjamin – One Way Street – thanks Morgan Daniels)
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