Mapping Benjamin: The Work of Art in the Digital AgeHans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Michael Marrinan Since its publication in 1936, Walter Benjamin’s “Artwork” essay has become a canonical text about the status and place of the fine arts in modern mass culture. Benjamin was especially concerned with the ability of new technologies—notably film, sound recording, and photography—to reproduce works of art in great number. Benjamin could not have foreseen the explosion of imagery and media that has occurred during the past fifty years. Does Benjamin’s famous essay still speak to this new situation? That is the question posed by the editors of this book to a wide range of leading scholars and thinkers across a spectrum of disciplines in the humanities. The essays gathered here do not hazard a univocal reply to that question; rather they offer a rich, wide-ranging critique of Benjamin’s position that refracts and reflects contemporary thinking about the ethical, political, and aesthetic implications of life in the digital age. |
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Contents
AURA DIRK BAECKER | 9 |
HISTORY NORBERT BOLZ | 24 |
TECHNOLOGY KARLHEINZ BARCK | 39 |
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| Title | Mapping Benjamin: The Work of Art in the Digital Age Volume 61 of Writing science |
| Editors | Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Michael Marrinan |
| Publisher | Stanford University Press, 2003 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Jun 16, 2009 |
| ISBN | 0804744351, 9780804744355 |
| Length | 349 pages |
| Subjects | › Performing Arts / General Philosophy / Aesthetics Social Science / Media Studies |
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