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Walter Benjamin

Walter Benjamin. Work of Art in an Age of Mechanical Reproduction. Ambivalence. This essay is not a lament. Nor is it celebratory in tone. Key figure: the flaneur. Author. Authorship and authority: generative power (cf. to Moche, btw). Aura.

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Walter Benjamin

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  1. Walter Benjamin Work of Art in an Age of Mechanical Reproduction

  2. Ambivalence • This essay is not a lament. Nor is it celebratory in tone. • Key figure: the flaneur

  3. Author • Authorship and authority: generative power (cf. to Moche, btw)

  4. Aura • “To pry an object from its shell, to destroy its aura, is the mark of a perception whose ‘sense of the universal equality of things’ has increased to such a degree that it extracts it even from a unique object by means of reproduction.” (p. 256)

  5. The Autograph Manuscript of Ludwig van Beethoven's Grosse Fuge, estimated at £1/1.5 million ($1.7/2.6 million)

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