-,he Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media

THE WORK OF ART IN THE AGE OF ITS TEe HN0 LOG ICAL REP ROD UCIBILITY AND OTHER WRITINGS ON MEDIA walter benjamin walter benjamin THE WORK OF ART IN THE AGE OF ITS TECH NOLO GICA L REPR ODU CIBILITY AND OTHER WRITINGS ON MED IA Edited by Michael W.... Leggi di più

THE WORK OF ART IN THE AGE OF ITS TEe HN0 LOG ICAL REP ROD UCIBILITY AND OTHER WRITINGS ON MEDIA walter benjamin walter benjamin THE WORK OF ART IN THE AGE OF ITS TECH NOLO GICA L REPR ODU CIBILITY AND OTHER WRITINGS ON MED IA Edited by Michael W. Jennings, Brigid Doherty, and Thomas Y. Levin $18.95 Translated by Edmund Jephcott, Rodney Livingstone, Howard Eiland, and Others Benjamin's famous "Work of Art" essay sets out his boldest thoughts-on media and on culture in general- in their most highly developed form, while retainingan edge that gets under the skin of everyone who reads it. In this essay the visual arts of the machine age morph into literature and theory, and then back again to images, gestures, and thought. This essay, however, is only the beginning of a vast collection of writings that the editors have assembled to demonstrate what was revolutionary about Benjamin'S explorations on media. Long before Marshall McLuhan, Benjamin saw that the way a bul Leggi meno