Physiognomy of a Flâneur : Walter Benjamin's peregrinations through Paris in search of a new imaginary / Beatrice Hanssen -- Et cetera? : the historian as chiffonnier / Irving Wohlfarth -- The Flâneur, the sandwichman, and the whore : the politics of loitering / Susan Buck-Morss -- Passage work / Barbara Johnson -- Ruin and rubble in the Arcades / Esther Leslie -- Geheimmittel : advertising and dialectical images in Benjamin's Arcades project / Max Pensky -- A matter of distance : Benjamin's One-way street through The arcades / Gerhard Richter -- "The colportage phenomenon of space" and the place of montage in The arcades project / Brigid Doherty -- Walter Benjamin's dream of "happiness" / Elissa Marder -- The dream-reality of the ruin / Stathis Gourgouris -- The enticing and threatening face of prehistory : Walter Benjamin and the utopia of glass / Detlef Mertins -- "Glass before its time, premature iron" : architecture, temporality, and dream in Benjamin's Arcades project / Tyrus Miller -- Remains to be seen / Stanley Cavell.