Benjamin's famous "Work of Art" essay sets out his boldest
thoughts--on media and on culture in general--in their most
realized form, while retaining an 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 bullet rips into its
victim is exactly the way a movie or pop song lodges in the
soul.
This book contains the second, and most daring, of the four
versions of the "Work of Art" essay--the one that addresses the
utopian developments of the modern media. The collection tracks
Benjamin's observations on the media as they are revealed in essays
on the production and reception of art; on film, radio, and
photography; and on the modern transformations of literature and
painting. The volume contains some of Benjamin's best-known work
alongside fascinating, little-known essays--some appearing for the
first time in English. In the context of his passionate engagement
with questions of aesthetics, the scope of Benjamin's media theory
can be fully appreciated.
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