“…in effect we are before a stroller of the capital, before someone who, although he does not live there but in its most peaceful periphery, needs to look almost daily at its streets and squares, to submerge himself in its crowds a little like Eduard Munch...
It matters little not to know how to find one’s way in the city,” says Walter Benjamin, “but getting lost in it, like getting lost in the forest, requires an apprenticeship. The complex analysis of the dynamic components of the city carried out by...