Walter Benjamin's "The Work of Art in the Age of Its Mechanical Reproducibility"

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Thank you SO SO much for this. I had a hard time understanding the point of the text in relation to film and you made it so much easier. I had geniune confusion with the language but now I can finally smash that essay I've been putting off haha! 🙌

Thanks for clearing this up! I had trouble sussing out Benjamin's key premises here (I have difficulty reading), and as you pointed out in your explanation, it almost seemed like he was mourning the death of the aura when he meant the opposite. The text makes a LOT more sense to me now in light of this.

Thank you for a such a clear analysis! I'm looking forward to viewing more of your videos.

Very very comprehensive. Thank you so much for interpreting this heavy work for us!! John Berger's book Ways of Seeing and its televised adaptation (Episode 1) is an interesting illustration of Benjamin's ideas- one can also check that out.

thank you for helping me understand the text. this was very helpful

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Thanks for bringing in this perspective of Benjamin applauding the idea of mechanical reproduction of art. Initially when I read, I thought he was in favour of conserving art in its purist sense. Thank you for bringing out this essential perspective.

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this was so so helpful and well explained tysm!

This really broke it down for me, thanks!

This was super helpful, thank you so much!

Really been enjoying your videos lately! Also, I feel like Benjamin, particularly this book, couldn't be more relevant than today, in the age of memes and videos…

This is a very good video! The ideas are very interesting to discuss, and relate back to our current world problem of the commodification of art and the downplay of the craft, especially in regards to AI generated images

Wonderful take, I am really thankful for your thoughts!

I appreciate your videos and I have been listening to the work you are doing in summarizing Baudrillard for my own research so thank you!... but I think that your take on Benjamin is missing his larger point in the power he saw in film as a vehicle for revolution (a new social function of art as the field of "play" that you noted) and his warning of how, conversely, film is being used to aestheticize politics & war by fascists and to manipulate and control the masses (by way of Mickey Mouse) by capitalists through the exploitation of our inescapable tendency towards cult value. For many reasons, the text remains highly relevant in our media based culture today and I pick up on new subtleties each time I read the text. Kudos for taking on such a rich topic that had withstood the test of time!

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Complete study notes: Walter Benjamin- "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" https://eliteraturenotes.blogspot.com/p/walter-benjamin-work-of-art-in-age-of.html?m=1

Clear, insightful lecture thank you 🙏 and I agree the magic of the moon evades description👍

You posted this awhile ago, but I was wondering: acccording to you does benjamin consider the shift to exhibition value as a good thing or not?