What happens when we understand the City of Lights as a medium for U.S. power abroad? 

This post could also be called: Walter Benjamin in the Age of Me Noodling Around with Small Data.

"The only recent photograph of him (taken many years ago) is of him wearing a furious face as he fends off an intruding cameraman." Indeed. His name is J.D. Salinger, and now he's dead.

Allow me to take undue advantage of double vision and describe Oxford Street from the perspective of an erstwhile denizen of Accra as well as that of someone who has lived abroad for many years.