RTA 310 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Ai Weiwei, Commodity Fetishism, Frankfurt School
5 Jun 2017
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Driven from nazi germany, they moved to la adorno. Believed that mass culture would always try to dupe you in some way. Leisure time becomes toxic time to expand and develop ourselves, leisure has fallen to culture industry: capitalism doesn"t sell us things we really need ( benjamin) The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction. Benjamin explains how while reproduction is not new, the process of mass reproduction is a result of more recent tech advances: art is no longer magical because it loses its aura in reproduction. Used as a tool to protest against politics: (harrington) photographic reproduction is capable of lifting any image out of historical tradition of reception and thereby nullifying its time-honoured charm commodity fetishism. Leni riefenstahl"s triumph of the will (documentary: nazi and fascist symbols young, clean, aryan men; clean lines, bold, nazi troop aesthetics seen in star wars.
