English 2200F/G Chapter 6: Week 6 - Benjamin & Althusser Textbook Notes

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The work of art in the age of its technical reproducibility walter benjamin. This work introduces benjamin"s seminal concept of aura the unique quality traditionally attributed to an artwork, giving it a special status equivalent to that of a sacred object in religious ritual. Benjamin argues that the status of the artwork is not timeless: it changed with the advent of capitalist mass production, which dispelled its unique aura and revered standing by devaluing the concept of the original . Benjamin speculates that social transformations induced by technological changes in production alter aesthetic perception itself. He contrasts painting with film, noting that the stream of images in film promotes a. Deepening of apperception and that the close-up, among other techniques, furthers insight into the necessities governing our lives. these are benefits of the reproducibility of art. In contrast to painting or orchestral music, film has revolutionary potential because it abolishes authenticity and aura and enjoins the participation of the audience.

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