• The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

  • Jun 23 2023
  • Length: 58 mins
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The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

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  • For this episode, Esther Leslie and Louis Porter join us to unpick the mind of one of the 20th century's greatest thinkers Walter Benjamin. In 1935, he wrote an essay called 'The Work of Art in the Age of its Mechanical Reproduction'. During the episode, we reflect on some of the core ideas from the text and apply them to modern-day cultural phenomenons, from machine translation to grand-scale digital art exhibitions. 
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