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  1. Feb 20, 2024 · Walter Benjamin investigates how mechanical reproduction changes art radically, how fascism and capitalism react to this change, and how it can serve as a subversive mechanism which can free art.

  2. Oct 2, 2021 · In the famous essay from 1935/1936 The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility (Das Kunstwerk im Zeitalter seiner technischen Reproduzierbarkeit), Walter Benjamin introduces a highly ambiguous concept of “aura” in the philosophical and...

  3. Jul 26, 2017 · "Walter Benjamin" published on by null. General Overviews. The most widely read introductions to Benjamin’s writing provide broadly chronological and reasonably comprehensive discussions of his work, and generally give some account of the important friendships and intellectual influences on his writing.

  4. Sep 16, 2023 · Walter Benjamin was born on 15 July 1892 in Berlin, Germany, into a prosperous, upper-middle-class family. He studied Philosophy at universities in Freiburg, Berlin, and Munich from 1912 and managed did not serve in the First World War.

  5. Walter Benjamin's Pass for the Bibliothèque Nationale. Courtesy of Bibliothèque Nationale. During this time, as the Great Depression spread hardship throughout France, Benjamin was constantly apprehensive about money. Max Horkheimer, director of the Marxist Institute for Social Research (then in exile in New York City), pushed frequently by Adorno, provided money and opportunities for publicati

  6. Jan 18, 2024 · Archive of Walter Benjamin. Walter Benjamin 1892-1940 “The transformation of the superstructure, which takes place far more slowly than that of the substructure, has taken more than half a century to manifest in all areas of culture the change in the conditions of production.

  7. For students of modern criticism and theory, Walter Benjamin's writings have become essential reading. His analyses of photography, film, language, history, allegory, material culture, the poet Charles Baudelaire, and his vast examination of the social, political and historical significance of the Arcades of nineteenth-century Paris have left an enduring and important critical legacy.

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