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journalette · 1 month

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I am currently working on an essay on Walter Benjamin's "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction".

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sivavakkiyar · 10 months

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Walter Benjamin, from One-Way Street

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philosophybits · 6 months

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Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method.

Walter Benjamin, "Unpacking My Library: A Talk About Book Collecting"

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annaxmalina · 10 months

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{2023} angelus novus (after w.b.) https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/benjamin/1940/history.htm for Scherenschnitt 3.0, a collection of gifs reinterpreting the traditional art of papercuts

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lunamarish · 7 months

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Collezioniamo libri pensando di prendercene cura, ma sono loro a prendersi cura di noi.

Walter Benjamin

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funeral · 9 months

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Jean Baudrillard, The Transparency of Evil

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titleknown · 8 months

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...This may make me a phillistine, but I do find it very funny at how goofy the painting that inspired Walter Benjamin's concept of "The Angel of History" looks.

Like, here is his dramatic description of the painting:

A Klee painting named Angelus Novus shows an angel looking as though he is about to move away from something he is fixedly contemplating. His eyes are staring, his mouth is open, his wings are spread. This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage upon wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such violence that the angel can no longer close them. The storm irresistibly propels him into the future to which his back is turned, while the pile of debris before him grows skyward. This storm is what we call progress.

And now, here is the actual painting:

#walter benjamin #the angel of history #it just looks very goofy okay #faces #weird faces #silly

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nierreplicantver122474487239 · 1 year

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It is significant that the existence of the work of art with reference to its aura is never entirely separated from its ritual function. In other words, the unique value of the “authentic” work of art has its basis in ritual, the location of its original use value. This ritualistic basis, however remote, is still recognizable as secularized ritual even in the most profane forms of the cult of beauty. The secular cult of beauty, developed during the Renaissance and prevailing for three centuries, clearly showed that ritualistic basis in its decline and the first deep crisis which befell it. With the advent of the first truly revolutionary means of reproduction, photography, simultaneously with the rise of socialism, art sensed the approaching crisis which has become evident a century later. At the time, art reacted with the doctrine of l’art pour l’art, that is, with a theology of art. This gave rise to what might be called a negative theology in the form of the idea of ‘pure’ art, which not only denied any social function of art but also any categorizing by subject matter.

“Fiat ars—pereat mundus,” (let art be created, though the world perishes) says Fascism, and, as Marinetti admits, expects war to supply the artistic gratification of a sense perception that has been changed by technology. This is evidently the consummation of “l’art pour l’art.” Mankind, which in Homer’s time was an object of contemplation for the Olympian gods, now is one for itself. Its self-alienation has reached such a degree that it can experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order. This is the situation of politics which Fascism is rendering aesthetic. Communism responds by politicizing art.

Walter Benjamin, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

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soracities · 2 years

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