FROM COMPILATION TO COLLAGE: The Found-Footage Films of Arthur Lipsett: The Martin Walsh Memorial Lecture 2007

For his investigation of the economic, social, and cultural developments that shaped nineteenth-century Paris, [Walter Benjamin] chose an extremely unorthodox methodology based on the accumulation of brief quotations from a vast array of nineteenth- and twentieth-century sources. "This work," Benjamin wrote, "has to develop to the highest degree the art of citing without quotation marks.