Introduction / Gevork Hartoonian -- Manfredo Tafuri and the age of historical representation / Andrew Leach -- Looking backward, looking forward : delightful delays / Gevork Hartoonian -- Porosity at the edge : working through Walter Benjamin's "Naples" / Andrew Benjamin -- From Baldwin's Paris to Benjamin's : the architectonics of race and sexuality in Giovanni's room / Magdalena J. Zaborowska -- Architecture under the gaze of photography : Benjamin's actuality and consequences / Nadir Lahiji -- The techno-aesthetics of shock : Mario Sironi and the exhibition of the fascist revolution )2391( / Libero Andreotti -- Mimesis / Neil Leach -- Daniel among the philosophers : the Jewish Museum, Berlin, and architecture after Auschwitz / Terry Smith -- Portbou and two grains of wheat : in remembrance of Walter Benjamin / Renee Tobe