Mapping Benjamin: The Work of Art in the Digital Age

Published by Stanford University Press 2003

Mapping Benjamin

The Work of Art in the Digital Age

Edited by: Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht and Michael J. Marrinan

In the series Writing Science

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781503619968

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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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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Editors' Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
AESTHETICS
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PERCEPTION
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AURA The Unique Appearance of Distance Dirk Baecker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
HISTORY Aesthetics of Media: What Is the Cost of Keeping Benjamin Current? Norbert Bolz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	24
REPLICATION There Are No Mass Media Bernhard Siegert Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	30
TECHNOLOGY Connecting Benjamin: The Aesthetic Approach to Technology Karlheinz Barck Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	39
APPARATUS
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MONTAGE
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AESTHETICS History After Film Peter Gilgen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
AURA Digitized Analogies Richard Shiff Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	63
HISTORY The Photomonteur Recycled: A Benjaminian Epilogue to Heartfield's 1991 Berlin Retrospective Walter Moser Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
TECHNOLOGY From Aura-Loss to Cyberspace: Further Thoughts on Walter Benjamin Siegfried J. Schmidt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
AURA
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TECHNOLOGY
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AUTHENTICITY How to Make Mistakes on So Many Things at Once- And Become Famous for It Antoine Hennion and Bruno Latour Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
FETISH Between Goethe's and Spielberg's "Aura": On the Utility of a Nonoperational Concept Jurgen Link Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	98
HISTORY From Mechanical Reproduction to Electronic Representation Roger Chartier Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
PRESENCE Aura Hysterica or the Lifted Gaze of the Object Ursula Link-Heer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	114
AUTHENTICITY
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REPLICATION Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	129
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APPARATUS "The Cameraman and Machine Are Now One": Walter Benjamin's Frankenstein Lindsay Waters Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
PRESENCE Concerning Two "Encounters" with Walter 109 133 Benjamin: The Reproducibility of Art Paul Zumthor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	142
RITUAL Air From Other Planets Blowing: The Logic of Authenticity and the Prophet of the Aura Aleida Assmann and Jan Assmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
TECHNOLOGY What Is Mechanical Reproduction? Robert Hullot-Kentor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	158
CRITICAL DISCOURSE
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REPRESENTATION
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ABSENCE The Destruction of Representation: Walter Benjamin's Artwork Essay in the Present Age Kerstin Behnke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
AURA Text-Critical Remarks et Alia Klaus Weimar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	188
FETISH
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RITUAL
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APPARATUS Toward the Artwork Essay, Second Version Henning Ritter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203
AURA The Reverent Gaze: Toward the Cultic Function of the Artwork in the Premodern and the Postmodern Age Horst Wenzel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
HISTORY Walter Benjamin In the Information Age? On the Limited Possibilities for a Defetishizing Critique of Culture Pericles Lewis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221
POLITICS Media Theory After Benjamin and Brecht: Neo-Marxist? Niels Werber Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	230
HISTORY
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POLITICS
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APPARATUS Museums of the Present: Rimbaud Reads Benjamin Joao Cezar De Castro Rocha Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	249
AURA The End of Aura? Stephen G. Nichols Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	256
PRESENCE A Commonplace in Walter Benjamin Brian Neville and Bill Readings Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	269
TECHNOLOGY If It Were Only for Real Joshua Feinstein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	274
PRESENCE
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ABSENCE
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AUTHENTICITY The Flip Side Maria Rosa Menocal Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	291
FETISH Post-Benjaminian Beatriz Sarlo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	301
HISTORY Pieta Robert P. Harrison Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	310
RITUAL Confronting Benjamin Stephen Bann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	318
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	325
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Language: English
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 368

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Published: July 28, 2003
ISBN: 9781503619968