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Something that’s on my mind a lot lately; Walter Benjamin’s Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (1935)
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https://web.mit.edu/allanmc/www/benjamin.pdf
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Interesting how art does feel "local" in space and time. It makes it real, in the physical science sense. This exert reminds of, if not mistaken, Baudelaire explaining we cannot replay the past. Like movies on mythology, say Troy or Gladiator: Tainted by our current society norms. Pitt's Achilles is too 21st century.
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What is interesting to me here is how Benjamin clings into a relationship (original and copy - or the referred and the reference) that is very soon going to blow up. We’ve long gone past that and now live in a world where everything is a reproduction of itself, including ourselves maybe :)
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art is lucky its mechanomical properties have escaped into the disembodied zone 'ere us, & i think we are using it as a virtual body to escape X-Risks associated w/ our current default mode of time-based embodiment in wetware. if the decentralized provenance is preserved well, Benjamin would not have died in vain.
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One of my personal reasons for continuing a physical art practice with oil and knife
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You may enjoy my old article on NFTs where I bring up just this stuff from Benjamin. https://mirror.xyz/sgtslaughtermelon.eth/URrCpMoh35EgTCXVyv7vNnSKVN-YwJLSSzAl8N4uQYI
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have you come across the term mnemohistory? in short, it's the study of how the past is remembered it comes to mind here, too i read a few articles on the mnemohistory of Egypt, a lifetime ago https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110565843-004/html?lang=en
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must read for everyone right now. MUST READ! @yuri ykyk
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I prefer Tolstoy's view in "What is Art?" Art as the transfer of original feeling by an artist. Something which can never be imitated, regardless of the quality of reproduction
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Love this piece from Benjamin. I’ve never felt an “aura” of art so much as seeing a Rothko in person, and sure, making art more accessible through reproduction makes the reproductions less “authentic” than the original, but so what? I’d rather more people experience art than less, “authentic” or not.
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Nice too meet you
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