Tag Archives: Walter Benjamin

Express yourself (and ask for rights)

April 18, 2008 – 10:38

txt: Walter Benjamin (1936) - The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Source: UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television; - Transcribed: by Andy Blunden 1998; proofed and corrected Feb. 2005.
The growing proletarianization of modern man and the increasing formation of masses are two aspects of the same process. Fascism attempts to organize [...]

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And the Work of Art in the Age of Internet?

April 19, 2007 – 19:53

“Distraction as provided by art presents a covert control of the extent to which new tasks have become soluble by apperception. Since, moreover, individuals are tempted to avoid such tasks, art will tackle the most difficult and most important ones where it is able to mobilize the masses.
Today it does so in the film. Reception [...]

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