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Michial Farmer talks to David Grubbs and Nathan Gilmour about the concept of the flâneur. We read four pieces:
Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Man of the Crowd”
Charles Baudelaire’s “The Painter of Modern Life” (excerpts)
Walter Benjamin, “On Some Motifs in Baudelaire” (excerpts)
Virginia Woolf, “Street-Haunting”