Self-aware materialist reading

Materialist reading is all about how we "allow text in." We can't think that we're going to do a straightforward reading of something and not be "participating." The type of reading we choose to do co-creates the world in front of us. Thus to consistently have a work that circles around how it is reading is quite central. You can do a basic reading of the Arcades Project, and that's fine. But there are also many ways to move from there, to "read the world" similarly, so that each piece of writing is yet another attempt, an essay, in that direction, but one where we ourselves attempt to maintain a consciousness of what such a reading really means. We take short quotes and make short attempts to read the world we're in similarly to Benjamin, knowing that we'll come to different conclusions and ideas, but still from there having a sense that all the above concerns are summarized somehow, making a new work that breaks away, perhaps in its lack of breaking away.