The notion of Aura in Benjamin’s essay does a fantastic job at holding the entire text together in a way that makes it’s impregnable and impossible to separate aura from art. and his idea of diminishing returns in […]
Nothing in his essay draws me more than the notion of cult value in art. it’s certainly the product of it’s time, Theater had its shaekspearian cults, cinema has its kubrick cults, music has its Oum Kalthoum cults […]
Walter Benjamin’s interest in art and its evolution in the fast-changing society he was living in during the events of pre-WWII escalation made him thoroughly contemplate the state of art and its ability to cope […]
