Walter Benjamin - 2 views
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developmental tendencies of art under present conditions of production
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luc4891 on 04 Sep 10present conditions ≠ proletariat What prioritizes the present? Its utility for us or is it more iluminating for this theory?
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processing of data in the Fascist sense
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imitated
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Bronzes, terra cottas, and coins
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script became reproducible by print
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Wiki- "After the defeat of the Chinese in the Battle of Talas in 751 (present day Kyrgyzstan), the invention [paper making] spread to the Middle East.[7] The rudimentary and laborious process of paper making was refined and machinery was designed for bulk manufacturing of paper by Muslims. Production began in Baghdad, where the Arab Muslims invented a method to make a thicker sheet of paper, which helped transform papermaking from an art into a major industry."
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its presence in time and space
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suffered
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the original
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unique existence
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Uniqueness and permanence
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The adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to reality is a process of unlimited scope, as much for thinking as for perception.
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Both of them, however, were equally confronted with its uniqueness, that is, its aura.
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parasitical dependence
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designed for reproducibility
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politics
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free-floating contemplation
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The primary question – whether the very invention of photography had not transformed the entire nature of art – was not raised.
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camera,
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Consequently, the aura that envelops the actor vanishes, and with it the aura of the figure he portrays.
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The frightened reaction can be shot now and be cut into the screen version
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movie-makers’ capital
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hus, the distinction between author and public is about to lose its basic character.
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modern man’s legitimate claim to being reproduced
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spectacle unimaginable anywhere at any time before this
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illusionary.
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otal one
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Thus the same public which responds in a progressive manner toward a grotesque film is bound to respond in a reactionary manner to surrealism
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science
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slow motion
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The spectator’s process of association in view of these images is indeed interrupted by their constant, sudden change.
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Architecture has always represented the prototype of a work of art the reception of which is consummated by a collectivity in a state of distraction.
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For the tasks which face the human apparatus of perception at the turning points of history cannot be solved by optical means, that is, by contemplation, alone. They are mastered gradually by habit, under the guidance of tactile appropriation.
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The growing proletarianization of modern man and the increasing formation of masses are two aspects of the same process. Fascism attempts to organize the newly created proletarian masses without affecting the property structure which the masses strive to eliminate. Fascism sees its salvation in giving these masses not their right, but instead a chance to express themselves. The masses have a right to change property relations; Fascism seeks to give them an expression while preserving property. The logical result of Fascism is the introduction of aesthetics into political life. The violation of the masses, whom Fascism, with its Führer cult, forces to their knees, has its counterpart in the violation of an apparatus which is pressed into the production of ritual values.
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ts self-alienation has reached such a degree that it can experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order.
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During long periods of history, the mode of human sense perception changes with humanity’s entire mode of existence.
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This is the passage to which my comment here refers: http://www.personal.psu.edu/cpl2/blogs/digitaldialogue/2010/09/benjamin-on-aura.html#IDComment97370449
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Painting simply is in no position to present an object for simultaneous collective experience, as it was possible for architecture at all times, for the epic poem in the past, and for the movie today.