These are the slides that accompanied a talk I gave on Walter Benjamin at SUNY Albany on September 29, 2012. You can view the talk's abstract here: http://www.matthewtgrant.com/2012/09/23/walterbenjamin-twitter-cyberflanerie-and-the-aestheticization-of-politics/ I have also published the first part of a reconstruction of the talk here: http://www.matthewtgrant.com/2012/10/03/reconstruction-of-a-talk-given-on-walter-benjamin-and-twitter-part-1/