We will begin here with Walter Benjamin’s “The Work of Art in the Age of its Technological Reproducibility” (Second Version of 1936). (I’m not going to justify using this version except to say that there are aspects to it that exceed Adorno’s policing of Walter!) W.J.T. Mitchell has clarified the genealogy that ties Benjamin’s “Artwork” [...]
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On the Work of Art Today: Benjamin and the Machinic Phylum
Posted: October 27, 2008 in Benjamin, Cinema, Ecology of Sensation, Method, New Media, Perception, Representation, SwarmsTags: affect, aura, Benjamin, Deleuze, machinic phylum, New Media, RFID, shock, Swarms, technology, video games
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