Sign fetishism and allegorical interruption

This paper explores the rhetorical intersection between sign fetishism and allegorical interruption in Walter Benjamin’s critique of the philosophy of art’s discourse. To achieve this goal, it uses an expository interpretation to focus on the discursive moments that bring the phantasmagoric represen...

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Autor: García Elizondo, Eduardo
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2025
País:Perú
Institución:Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Repositorio:Revistas - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/32978
Acceso en línea:http://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/arete/article/view/32978
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:fetishism
sign
reading
allegory
interruption
fetichismo
signo
lectura
alegoría
interrupción
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Sumario:This paper explores the rhetorical intersection between sign fetishism and allegorical interruption in Walter Benjamin’s critique of the philosophy of art’s discourse. To achieve this goal, it uses an expository interpretation to focus on the discursive moments that bring the phantasmagoric representation of signs into a dialectical tension with an allegorical, materialist reading of an indiciary type. In the conclusions, I discuss how this dialectical tension plays out in relation to the staging of historical temporality and its rhetorical-aesthetical reliefs.