For a materialist history: scattered notes on Benjamin

This text aims to retake Walter Benjamin's writings in order to reflect on the concept of history and the task of the materialist historian. The political dimension is in to show the need for a new history that overcomes progressive linearity and expresses the articulation of past and present. It is a bibliographic investigation centered on some of Benjamin's writings that opens the way for a materialist history of culture. Below are brief reflections on education in the broad sense, as a formative process that takes place throughout the subjects' lives.