Flaneur: digital see-through telescope

We introduce the information flaneur as a new human-centred view on information seeking that is grounded in interdisciplinary research. We use the metaphor of the urban flaneur making sense of a city as an inspiring lens that brings together diverse ...

João do Rio, writer and journalist, wanders through the streets of Rio de Janeiro in the early 20th century, observing the city, its human types. Such ethnographic observations give rise to his chronicles-reports, initially published in newspapers and ...

In this paper, I will argue that Walter Benjamin's reading of Baudelaire serves as a powerful example of “cross-temporal reading.” Benjamin was a sympathetic and careful reader of Baudelaire, and he found much in Baudelaire that he used in his own ...