What I could understand about this work from Benjamin is that the time is really you and that the past and the future exist in a single present. This essay handles two important concepts in its thesis; history discontinuous and interrupted time. For Benjamin history is the subject of a fragmented building, where there is no linear time. According to Benjamin the past should not be articulated historically because this would mean not to know it the way it really happened since we only know memories as history. Therefore, in order for the past to continue living, collective memory must reinvent it every minute. He also emphasizes that all the energy of the history focuses on reality of the present, and that past and future are only ways of how we live now.
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