work he published regularly in the feuilleton section, Kracauer also wrote philosophical and sociological analyses of daily-life phenomena in the tradition of his teacher Georg Simmel. In these quotidian micrologies focusing, for example, on the architecture of cinema pal- aces, unemployment offices and arcades, on travel and dance troupes, best-sellers and boredom, on neon-light displays and mass sports events, Kracauer developed a genre motivated by the following programmatic insight: "One must rid oneself of the delusion that it is the major events which have the most decisive influence on people. They are much more deeply and continuously influenced by the tiny catastrophes which make up daily life." The publication in translation of a collection of these essays from the Weimar period entitled The Mass Ornament will finally makeTransport for Wales has appointed Alun Bowen as Non-Executive Director and Chair of their Audit and Risk Committee.

An experienced finance professional, Alun has 37 years’ experience working for global accounting firm KPMG. His work has taken him throughout the world, with roles in Cardiff, London, Sydney, Hong Kong and Kazakhstan.

One of his roles at the company was Senior Partner in Wales, where he acted as the lead business planning advisor on projects such as the National Botanic Garden of Wales and Wales Millennium Centre.

Alun, who hails from Llandeilo and is a Welsh speaker, has been the Chair of Business in the Community Cymru and a member of the Audit Committee of Business in the Community UK, Chair of Cardiff Common Purpose, a council member of Prince’s Trust Cymru