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Chris Long

Angelus Novus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 1 views

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Benjamin History

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  • Chris Long on 31 Aug 10
     
    "A Klee painting named Angelus Novus shows an angel looking as though he is about to move away from something he is fixedly contemplating. His eyes are staring, his mouth is open, his wings are spread. This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage upon wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such violence that the angel can no longer close them. The storm irresistibly propels him into the future to which his back is turned, while the pile of debris before him grows skyward. This storm is what we call progress."
  • Chris Long on 31 Aug 10
     
    In case anyone was interested in why I selected Klee's painting for the icon for this group.
Chris Long

Mechanical Reproduction and its Impact on the Individual - The Digital Dialogue - 1 views

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Aura Benjamin Art History

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  • As I understand the use of the word 'Aura' here, it is the unique experience of a thing relative to its location in space and time.
    • Chris Long
      Chris Long on 08 Sep 10
       
      What happens to the notion of History and tradition here?  See, section II, 220-2.
  • Chris Long on 08 Sep 10
     
    "This, as Benjamin gets at, draws away from the object or experiences 'Aura'. As I understand the use of the word 'Aura' here, it is the unique experience of a thing relative to its location in space and time."
luc4891

Walter Benjamin - 2 views

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  • developmental tendencies of art under present conditions of production
    • luc4891
      luc4891 on 04 Sep 10
       
      present conditions ≠ proletariat What prioritizes the present? Its utility for us or is it more iluminating for this theory?
  • processing of data in the Fascist sense
    • luc4891
      luc4891 on 04 Sep 10
       
      How do these cocepts lend themselves to Fascism?
  • imitated
    • luc4891
      luc4891 on 04 Sep 10
       
      reproducible ≠ imitable
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  • reproducible
  • gain.
  • Bronzes, terra cottas, and coins
    • luc4891
      luc4891 on 04 Sep 10
       
      All items of daily use
  • script became reproducible by print
    • luc4891
      luc4891 on 04 Sep 10
       
      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."
  • its presence in time and space
    • luc4891
      luc4891 on 04 Sep 10
       
      What of the dimensions of the internet and digital format now?
  • suffered
    • luc4891
      luc4891 on 04 Sep 10
       
      negative connotation
  • The presence of the original is the prerequisite to the concept of authenticity.
  • the original
    • luc4891
      luc4891 on 04 Sep 10
       
      Does photography have an original? Does the process from film negative to dark room dislocated the original to each instantiation of light and chemical exposure done by the artist in the dark room?
  • natural vision
  • unique existence
    • luc4891
      luc4891 on 04 Sep 10
       
      The value of an experience cannot be constituted by its frequency alone.
  • Uniqueness and permanence
    • luc4891
      luc4891 on 04 Sep 10
       
      Wouldn't a unique experience be so by virture of it not being permanent?
  • 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.
  • Both of them, however, were equally confronted with its uniqueness, that is, its aura.
    • luc4891
      luc4891 on 04 Sep 10
       
      How can its aura be the same in another age with another context of interpretation? Does its physical presence override all other aspects?
  • ritual function.
  • he location of its original use value
  • categorizing
  • parasitical dependence
    • luc4891
      luc4891 on 04 Sep 10
       
      Why is it parasitical?
  • designed for reproducibility
    • luc4891
      luc4891 on 04 Sep 10
       
      Conditions of possibility reflect upon telos
  • politics
    • luc4891
      luc4891 on 04 Sep 10
       
      Interesting change from ritual
  • free-floating contemplation
    • luc4891
      luc4891 on 05 Sep 10
       
      set against delimited investigation. Is such a distinction most aptly associated with politics?
  • autonomy
  • The primary question – whether the very invention of photography had not transformed the entire nature of art – was not raised.
    • luc4891
      luc4891 on 05 Sep 10
       
      Art changed without people grasping it had.
  • camera,
    • luc4891
      luc4891 on 05 Sep 10
       
      projector?
  • The audience’s identification with the actor is really an identification with the camera.
  • Consequently, the aura that envelops the actor vanishes, and with it the aura of the figure he portrays.
    • luc4891
      luc4891 on 06 Sep 10
       
      Does aura have its base in presence or in cult use? Doesn't the activity of watching a film (in a theatre and all the practices that entails) constitute something like an aura or presence unique to film?
  • expedient
  • The frightened reaction can be shot now and be cut into the screen version
    • luc4891
      luc4891 on 06 Sep 10
       
      Has this ever happened? This seems ridiculous.
    • luc4891
      luc4891 on 06 Sep 10
       
      Then again, this could be drawn out more thoroughly with voyeurisnm, "reality" tv, and documentaries.
  • spell of the personality,
  • movie-makers’ capital
    • luc4891
      luc4891 on 06 Sep 10
       
      Why is theatre not tainted by capital? It still functions off of marketablity and consumer support.
  • organs
  • hus, the distinction between author and public is about to lose its basic character.
    • luc4891
      luc4891 on 06 Sep 10
       
      Hence, Diigo...
  • modern man’s legitimate claim to being reproduced
    • luc4891
      luc4891 on 06 Sep 10
       
      his claim which is...?
  • spectacle unimaginable anywhere at any time before this
    • luc4891
      luc4891 on 06 Sep 10
       
      and in this way is unique.
  • illusionary.
    • luc4891
      luc4891 on 06 Sep 10
       
      Is this the right conept we want to employ in understanding fiction and its manifestations?
    • luc4891
      luc4891 on 06 Sep 10
       
      Touch is not the polar opposite of penetration.
  • authori
  • organs
  • who is still hidden in the medical practitioner
  • laying on of hands
  • laying on of hands
  • laying on of hands
  • laying on of hands
  • laying on of hands
  • laying on of hands
  • laying on of hands
  • laying on of hands
  • laying on of hands
  • laying on of hands
  • laying on of hands
  • laying on of hands
  • laying on of hands
  • laying on of hands
  • laying on of hands
  • hands
  • otal one
    • luc4891
      luc4891 on 06 Sep 10
       
      Total how?
  • And that is what one is entitled to ask from a work of art.
  • Thus the same public which responds in a progressive manner toward a grotesque film is bound to respond in a reactionary manner to surrealism
    • luc4891
      luc4891 on 06 Sep 10
       
      The nature of art is that its true value must be mitigated by hierarchal exposure?
  • Freudian theory
  • incomparably more precise
  • science
    • luc4891
      luc4891 on 06 Sep 10
       
      Art theory/criticism/aesthetics are sciences be virture of their utilization of analysis? If the science is one of art, its values become blurred with "art" value in some sort of unadulterated experience.
  • our lives
  • slow motion
  • it reveals entirely new structural formations of the subject
  • unconscious optics
  • contemplation became a school for asocial behavior
  • The spectator’s process of association in view of these images is indeed interrupted by their constant, sudden change.
    • luc4891
      luc4891 on 06 Sep 10
       
      Displacement between the experience of art and the more cognitive aspects of analyzing art.
  • 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.
  • by use and by perception – or rather, by touch and sight.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Fiat ars – pereat mundus
  • ts self-alienation has reached such a degree that it can experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order.
    • luc4891
      luc4891 on 06 Sep 10
       
      Shadows of Freud
  • During long periods of history, the mode of human sense perception changes with humanity’s entire mode of existence.
  • laying on of hands
  • 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.
Chris Long

Hegel on Wall Street - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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Hegel Individual

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  • Hegel’s emphatic but paradoxical way of stating this is to say that if the free market individualist acts “in [his] own self-interest, [he] simply does not know what [he] is doing, and if [he] affirms that all men act in their own self-interest, [he] merely asserts that all men are not really aware of what acting really amounts to.”
  • Hegel narrates how each formation of self and world collapses because of a mismatch between self-conception and how that self conceives of the larger world.  Hegel thinks we can see how history has been driven by misshapen forms of life in which the self-understanding of agents and the worldly practices they participate in fail to correspond.  With great drama, he claims that his narrative is a “highway of despair.”
  • holier-than-thou virtue and the self-interested Wall Street banker are making the same error from opposing points of view.
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  • Both are wrong because, finally, it is not motives but actions that matter, and how those actions hang together to make a practical world. 
  • what makes self-interested individuality effective is not its self-interested motives, but that there is an elaborate system of practices that supports, empowers, and gives enduring significance to the banker’s actions.
  • What bankers do, Hegel is urging, is satisfy a function within a complex system that gives their actions functional significance.
  • Time matters here because what must be promoted is the practice’s capacity to reproduce itself.
  • the profit-driven actions of the financial sector became increasingly detached from their function of supporting and advancing the growth of capital.
  • What market regulations should prohibit are practices in which profit-taking can routinely occur without wealth creation; wealth creation is the world-interest that makes bankers’ self-interest possible
  • regulation is the force of reason needed to undo the concoctions of fantasy
  • Chris Long on 04 Oct 10
     
    Very interesting discussion in light of Adorno's work in Minima Moralia
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