1902-1918: Benjamin F. Allen

4th President 1902-1918

A influência do pensamento liberal de Benjamin Constant na formação do Estado Imperial Brasileiro / Cleber Francisco Alves. --

Inclui notas explicativas, bibliográficas e bibliografia.

Benjamin, BitTorrent, Bootlegs: auratic piracy cultures?

Seventy-five years ago, Walter Benjamin showed us that the line between "production" and "reproduction" had begun to blur. Reproduction was no longer optional, consequential and degrading (the shredding of the original’s aura), but was instead being transformed into a principle of production itself: something was produced bearing in mind how it was to be reproduced. No longer did the original exist (in photography, film, music recordings), but instead diffusion, exhibition. The work existed precisely at the time and place of its enjoyment. Today, the cultural pirates of the new digital era take this principle to the extreme, with a certain characteristic also foreseen by Benjamin: a yearning to participate, to post-produce something captured in order to later return it to the Internet, modified in some way and made available to others. This postproduction is what is now often mixed up with reception, just as production and reproduction used to be in Benjamin’s day. Postproduction on the receiver’s side, which somehow augments and extends the received work, in other words creates an etymologically rigorous author-ization (auctor as the root of both author and augmentation). The cultural pirate only deserves redemption thanks to this creative augmentation.

París, destino privilegiado del exilio español (1813-1851): a propósito de varias aportaciones historiográficas recientes

París es una ciudad mítica que siempre ha despertado un especial poder de atracción entre las élites políticas y culturales. Solo un reducido número de afrancesados y liberales españoles que en el siglo XIX se vieron forzados al exilio, tuvieron la posibilidad legal de buscar refugio político –en ocasiones una nueva patria– en la capital francesa. En la última década, se ha producido un extraordinario avance historiográfico en el conocimiento de las características y particularidades del exilio español en París, gracias a la publicación de varias monografías, artículos y biografías sobre el tema. Este artículo pretende dar a conocer una selección de estos trabajos y conectar algunas de sus principales aportaciones.

Accounts with Benjamin Huntington, 1785-1787

This folder contains two handwritten copies of the accounts between Reverend Andrew Croswell of Boston, and Croswell's executor William Croswell, and Benjamin Huntington, for money collected from Col. Gallup between 1785 and 1787.

Letter from Benjamin Croswell to William Croswell, 1810 March 30

One-page letter from William Croswell's cousin with information about the ailments of Benjamin Croswell's wife.

Letter from William Croswell to Benjamin Webb, 1820 January 3

Draft of a one-page letter with information on Croswell's activities.

Letter from William Croswell to Benjamin Webb, 1822 September 4

Draft of a one-page letter primarily concerning Croswell's Mercator maps.

Account of attendance at the Library, 1813

Five leaves containing handwritten accounts of William Croswell's attendance and absences from his job at the Harvard Library in 1813.