1. I find it interesting that Walter Benjamin also wrote an article I read called the "Critique of Violence" in 1921. What mad him then write about art after, hence they are both very different topic?
2.When he says that its "Mechanical Reproduction" is it really "mechanical"?
If I am familiar with the Critique of Violence at all, it is that he says law cannot be separated from violence. If I could compare that to art in any way, it is that 'violence' is an expressive form like art. If he mentions later than violence cannot be separated from law, it makes me wonder it art cannot be separated from it either. It is a harrowing future indeed if all art must answer to the command of law/government. :)
ReplyDeleteBoth. Literally, in the context of an industrial revolution. And figuratively, as this new industrial method is making us operate at an inhuman, mechanical process.