the psychologistic subjectivism and ahistorical romanticism which he believed he could see beneath the dense and lapidary brilliance of Benjamin's text

oneiric version of commodity fetishism

specific contents of Baudelaire's poetry were directly reduced to economic peripeteia of the time

credulous believer in the thaumaturgical virtue of 'calling things by their names'

adept practitioners of the diplomatic art of euphemism and periphrasis, that knowingly does not call things by their name

Benjamin, following Brecht, tended to hypostasize techniques in abstraction from relations of production

a past and future stretching far beyond the anodyne riffs to which he confined it

an extremely complex and variegated set of dialectical relationships between 'high' and 'low' and 'avant-garde' and 'popular'strands