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Aura, Technology, and the Work of Art in Walter Benjamin
Aura, Technology, and the Work of Art in Walter Benjamin // The Palgrave Handbook of Image Studies / Purgar, Krešimir (ur.).
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. str. 265-280 doi:10.1007/978-3-030-71830-5
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Naslov
Aura, Technology, and the Work of Art in Walter
Benjamin
Autori
Paić, Žarko
Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Poglavlja u knjigama, znanstveni
Knjiga
The Palgrave Handbook of Image Studies
Urednik/ci
Purgar, Krešimir
Izdavač
Palgrave Macmillan
Grad
Cham
Godina
2021
Raspon stranica
265-280
ISBN
978-3-030-71829-9
Ključne riječi
Aura, Technology, Work of Art, Walter Benjamin
Sažetak
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 historical discourse of aesthetics. Aura blends motifs of Greek mythology, Jewish Kabbalistic and eschatology, echoes of esotericism and occultism, the modern experience of transcending the boundaries of the material world of phenomena, the bohemian experience of poets and artists from Baudelaire to the Surrealists, and the practice of opium and hashish users. Isn’t it truly “shocking” and “provocative” that the key concept of modern and contemporary art—aura, which has managed to survive in the contemporary age of the technosphere—encompasses all speculative-metaphysical, hybrid and manifold meanings precisely because it speaks of the power of image over language? So, despite his mimetic theory of language, Walter Benjamin opened the door to philosophy and art, starting from the “pictorial nature” of language.
Izvorni jezik
Engleski
Znanstvena područja
Interdisciplinarne društvene znanosti, Filozofija, Znanost o umjetnosti, Interdisciplinarne humanističke znanosti
