• Das Kunstwerk im Zeitalter seiner technischen Reproduzierbarkeit 📚
• by Walter Benjamin
• Read: Sep 28, 2023

Review

I don’t really think I got the gist of this book. It had the usual barrier to understanding that I’ve kinda come to expect from early 20th century philosophy texts. There is a lot of talking about film specifically and how it enables misuse of media. And when it comes to the reproducibility of art it’s mostly said that the “aura” of it gets lost. I’m likely gonna do a second pass of it at some point maybe with some relevant secondary literature in hand because I feel like there is more I can get from this text. Especially since there were many parts in there that lamented the dissolving distinction between author and audience. And the fact that “everyone these days can publish whatever they think they have to say”. Which feels very similar to a lot of discourse today about content creation.