Even 100 years on, I find Walter Benjamin’s reflections on “aura” very modern…
… As AI and digital reproduction accelerate, we again trade intimacy and uniqueness for scale and reach. https://t.co/ehAKN7K3ku
Even 100 years on, I find Walter Benjamin’s reflections on “aura” very modern… … As AI and digital reproduction accelerate, we again trade intimacy and uniqueness for scale and reach. https://t.co/ehAKN7K3ku
When the camera reproduces a painting, it destroys the uniqueness of its image. As a result its meaning changes. Or, more exactly, its meaning multiplies and fragments into many meanings.
John Berger • Ways of Seeing (Penguin Modern Classics)
