Since its publication in 1936, Walter Benjamin’s “Artwork”
essay has become a canonical text about the status and place of the
fine arts in modern mass culture. Benjamin was especially concerned
with the ability of new technologies—notably film, sound
recording, and photography—to reproduce works of art in great
number. Benjamin could not have foreseen the explosion of imagery
and media that has occurred during the past fifty years. Does
Benjamin’s famous essay still speak to this new situation? That
is the question posed by the editors of this book to a wide range
of leading scholars and thinkers across a spectrum of disciplines
in the humanities. The essays gathered here do not hazard a
univocal reply to that question; rather they offer a rich,
wide-ranging critique of Benjamin’s position that refracts and
reflects contemporary thinking about the ethical, political, and
aesthetic implications of life in the digital age.
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