[Walter_Benjamin]_The_Work_of_Art_in_the_Age_of_It(Bookos.org)

THE WORK OF ART IN THE AGE OF ITS TEe HN0 LOG ICAL REP ROD UCIBILITY AND OTHER WRITINGS ON MEDIA walter benjamin walter benjamin THE WORK OF ART IN THE AGE OF ITS TECH NOLO GICA L REPR ODU CIBILITY AND OTHER WRITINGS ON MED IA Edited by Michael W.... More

THE WORK OF ART IN THE AGE OF ITS
TEe HN0 LOG ICAL REP ROD UCIBILITY
AND OTHER WRITINGS ON MEDIA
walter benjamin
walter benjamin
THE WORK OF ART IN THE AGE OF ITS
TECH NOLO GICA L REPR ODU CIBILITY
AND OTHER WRITINGS ON MED IA
Edited by Michael W.
Jennings, Brigid Doherty,
and Thomas Y.
L
evin
$18.
95
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ranslated by Edmund Jephcott, Rodney
Livingstone, Howard Eiland, and Others
Benjamin s famous "Work of Art" essay sets out his
boldest thoughts-on media and on culture in general- in their most highly developed form, while
retainingan 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 i Less