Aesthetics of Change: An Introduction; A.Pusca Towards a Global Space of Democratic Rights: On Benjamin, Gramsci, and Polanyi; R.Holub Erasing the Traces, Tracing Erasures: Cultural Memory and Belonging in Newcastle/Gateshead, UK; Z.Thompson 'Sunshine and Noir': Benjamin, Kracauer and Roth visit the 'White Cities'; G.Gilloch Liquidation and Shattering: Aesthetics and Politics in Cold Climates; E.Leslie Fashion and Its 'Revolutions' in Walter Benjamin's Arcades ; P.Hroch Proof of the Forgotten: A Benjaminian Reading of Daguerre's Two Views of the Boulevard du Temple; E.Howie Commodity Display and the Phantasmagoria of Modernity: Exploring Walter Benjamin's Critique of History; R.Vasquez The Aura of Art After the Advent of the Digital; K.Vassiliou Towards a Benjaminist Political Economy; C.Belfrage Conclusion; A.Pusca