Abstract

ABSTRACTAt various points in our conjoined Benjaminian journey, the figure of the chicken has played a part in helping us understand the convoluted nature of history when wrenched free from homogenous time and viewed via the alternate temporality of the jetztzeit and its illuminating dialectical image. For De Mott, the chicken functioned narratively as the gateway into discussing stories lost due to changing emigration patterns, while for Tata the chicken became a stand-in for that Turkish automaton whose clever game animates both historical deception and the history of deception. That the chicken occupied such a central place in understanding Benjamin’s various texts seemed to be no accident, making it imperative that we title our sympoetic contribution to this project Chicken Theory as we combine our cackles into a deeper exposition of The Arcades Project itself, in particular m: Idleness, the one Convolute we both chose, and l: The Seine, the Oldest Paris (De Mott’s choice) and B: Fashion (Tata’s choice). To accomplish this lurid invocation of idleness, fashion and the Seine, we have used that delirious game the Surrealists called an Exquisite Corpse, only designed for two and creating what for the Moderns was a Conversation Poem.

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