Passagenwerk 533

To the collective, the shining enameled signs of a store or company are just as good as or better than the decorative oil paintings on the wall of the bourgeois salon. Walls with the sign Défense d’Afficher are the collective’s writing desk, newspapers stands its libraries, mailboxes its bronze sculptures, benches its bedroom furnishings, and the café terraces are the alcoves from which it looks down at his home. Where the asphalt worker lets his coat hang on the railing, that is the vestibule. And the gateway, leading out into the open from multiple courtyards, is the long corridor which frightens the bourgeoisie; but it is to them the entrance into the chambers of the city.

Walter Benjamin, Passagenwerk 533