Abstract:
History, once freed from the hold of dates, involves bodily presence. The
presence of those bodies is positioned within a nexus of operations. If that
nexus can be named then it is the locus of moods, Moods are lived alit;
equally, however. they are lived through. Implicit in the writings of Walter
Benjamin is a conception of historical subjectivity presented in terms of
moods. The project here is the formulation of that implicit presence. This
necessitates nor just the recovery of this direction ofrhought, but the attempt
to plot possible interconnections of historical time and the complexity of
lived experience. What is essential is that their occurrence be understood
as integral to the formulation of modernitv, Subjectivity cannot simply be
assumed. Its modern configuration is essential.
