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Benjamin’s Authority and Authenticity
Benjamin talks about the relation between authority and authenticity in “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” (220). Benjamin wonders whether reproduction of art makes it… more →
Literary History as Media History
Walter Benjamin (1936): The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
wrote 1 month ago: “…In principle a work of art has always been reproducible. Man-made artifacts could alwa … more →
Bibliographic Emendation
wrote 4 months ago: My apologies, but someone just drew my attention to the fact that the versions of Benjamin and Percy … more →
virtual window
wrote 4 months ago: Came across this website in my digital imaging class… it’s an interactive website that a … more →
Standing on the Edge of the World
wrote 7 months ago: Although the term “public opinion” has primarily been paired with politics over these past weeks, I … more →
In Defense of Auto-Tune (via Sounding Out!)
wrote 8 months ago: I am here today to defend auto-tune. I may be late to the party, but if you watched Lil Wayne’s rece … more →
In Defense of Auto-Tune
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wrote 8 months ago: Lil Wayne, I Am Still Music Tour, Photo by Matthew Eisman I am here today to defend auto-tune. I may … more →
Lady Gaga and the Reproduction of Art
wrote 9 months ago: …How does a cameraman compare with a painter? To answer this we take recourse to an analogy with a s … more →
visual spectrum: Robot 3
wrote 1 year ago: The Robot 3 has got to be one of the cutest toy cameras ever invented. On the front of the camera i … more →
looking for that real thing - desire in an age of technical reproduction
wrote 1 year ago: the reproduction is accepted and proffered in place of the original. and aura dies. the real is cruc … more →
Ways of Seeing
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wrote 1 year ago: Art by Madokan Suzuki Ways of Seeing by John Berger Ways of Seeing is a 1972 BBC four-part televisio … more →
Online reviews (Blog)
wrote 1 year ago: Digital Art; The works of Paik Nam June Nam June Paik was a Korean born American artist. Nicknamed t … more →
Annotation: Alys Eve Weinbaum's "Racial Aura" (2008)
wrote 2 years ago: Peer-Review: 0 This annotation was written in reference to my paper: “Re-imagining Chang-rae L … more →
Daniel Carrillo's Wet Plate Series
wrote 2 years ago: {Gala Bent} Like everyone else, I’m completely taken with Daniel Carrillo’s photographs … more →
Benjamin's Authority and Authenticity
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wrote 3 years ago: Benjamin talks about the relation between authority and authenticity in “The Work of Art in th … more →
Benjamin and The Actor's Aura
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wrote 3 years ago: I felt Benjamin’s discussion of the concept of ‘aura’ was most provocative when re … more →
The Flatness of Latour's Concept of Origin and Holbein's The Ambassadors
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wrote 3 years ago: [Bruno Latour offers this citation correction for the article discussed below: the paper and the the … more →
The Age of Excess
wrote 3 years ago: The massive reproduction of artwork has changed the nature of how an image is perceived by contempor … more →
Summary of Walter Benjamin article
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wrote 3 years ago: Here’s a summary of Walter Benjamin’s 1938 article, “The Work of Art in the Age of … more →
Aura of the actor and Film
wrote 3 years ago: “For the first time-and this is the effect of the film-man has to operate with his whole livin … more →
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