Philosophy

Something that’s on my mind a lot lately; Walter Benjamin’s Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (1935)

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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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I think that's why a lot of art is only understandable (especially modern art) through its context (for better and for worse) - also this specific "locality" is what Benjamin goes onto call "Aura" which goes missing in this industrial reproduction of objects - which don't have "Aura" are not art

Yet I used to feel something of the sort with Apple computers, rather mass produced. There is something about “design” efforts—quotes needed as design means different things for Apple and, say, Microsoft or Samsung.