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Mankind, which in Homer’s time was an object of contemplation for the Olympian gods, now is one for itself. Its self-alienation has reached such a degree that it can experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order. This is the situation of politics which Fascism is rendering aesthetic. Communism responds by politicizing art.
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This is a short collection of three essays by Walter Benjamin, including the well known "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" together with essays on Kafka and Proust. I don't know much about either Kafka or Proust, so these essays were mildly interesting, but largely outside my area of knowledge. The main essay on art is interesting on the development of film and photography, but I perhaps took less away from it than I was hoping to (although it remains interesting in the context of shows like Beyond Van Gogh that I wrote about on my blog here https://marxadventure.wordpress.com/2024/06/29/beyond-van-gogh/). Interesting nonetheless.
Interesting on early film and photography and surprisingly up-to-date on the growth of social media and the concept of reader as expert and potential author.
