On the Contemporary Relevance of Walter Benjamin Herbert Böttcher 1. Why Walter Benjamin? About 100 years ago Walter Benjamin wrote his fragment “Capitalism as Religion” (Benjamin 1921). The anniversary of this piece was an occasion to revisit Benjamin. In the process, the relationship between Benjamin’s dictum “that things are ‘status quo’ is the catastrophe” (Benjamin … Continue reading “That Things Are ‘Status Quo’ Is the Catastrophe”