After reading Walter Benjamin's essay about art, mechanical reproductions, etc. here are the questions I came up with.
Question #2: we are currently existing in a technological revolution. With the advent or mass sharing, information is constantly available at our fingertips, literally. Benjamin states that, "The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the new is criticized with aversion." What might be (or is) and example of this we could be experiencing in this, the Age of Technology?
I do believe a reproduction can take a form on its own! For a scenario, all information about some artifact or other could be lost before hand. All we might be left with is some foreign object. Makes me wonder about some artifacts in museum collectives, and if 'those' things were not particularly original but reproductions of a mass kind.
ReplyDeleteThe new is criticized quite more vehemently, I suspect because the criteria for criticizing it is more familiar. More is borrowed from the past, and with it, the way of analyzing it is. Subjectively, I could say film is a good example, because we have grown more familiar of the medium throughout time. As many of its aspects remain unchanged, so does our way of approaching its value. Value can be determined, of sorts, through trial and error. It is tough to determine in general!