MAPPING BENJAMIN THE WORK OF ART IN THE DIGITAL AGE

EDITED BY

Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht

Michael Marrinan

Stanford University Press

Stanford, California

Contents

Editors' Preface XI

AESTHETICS / PERCEPTION

AURA / DIRK BAECKER

The Unique Appearance of Distance

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9

HISTORY / NORBERT BOLZ

Aesthetics of Media: What ls the Cnst of KeetJing

Benjamin Current? 2.4

REPLICATION / BERNHARD

There Are No Mass Media STEGERT

30

TECHNOLOGY / KARLHEINZ BARCK

Connecting Benjamin: The Aesthetic Approach to

Techn%gy 39

APPARATUS / MONTAGE

AESTHETICS / PETER GILGEN

History After Film

45,49

53

AURA / RTCHARD SHIFF

Digitized Analogies 63

TECHNOLOGY / SIEGFRTED J. SCHMIDT

From Aura-Loss to Cyberspace: FlIrther Thoughts on

Waltel' Benjamin

HTSTORY / WALTER MOSER

The Photo711onteur Recycled: A Benjaminian F.piloguc to

Heartfield's 1991 Bertin Retrospective

79

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AURA / TECHNOLOGY 83,87

AUTHENTICITY / ANTOINE HENNION AND BRUNO LATO

How to Make Mistakes on So Many Things ar Once-And Become Famous for Ir 9T

FETISH / JÜRGEN LINK

Between Goethe's and Spielberg's "Aura": On the Uti/ity or a Nonoperational Concept 9R

HISTORY / ROGER CHARTIER

From Mechanical Reproduction to Electronic

Representa tion 1°9

PRESENCE / URSULA LINK-HEER

Aura Hysterica or the Lifted Gaze of rhe Objecr 114

AUTHENTICITY / REPLICATION 125,129

APPARATUS/ LINDSAY WATERS

"The Cameraman and Machine Are Now One": Walter Benjamin's Frankenstein 133

PRESENCE / PAUL ZUMTI-IOR

Concerning Two "Encounrers" with Walter

Benjamin: The Reproducibility or Art 142

RITUAL / ALEIDA ASSMANN AND JAN ASSMANN

Air From Other Planets Blowing: The Logic or Authenticity and the Prophet or the Aura 147

TECHNOLOGY / ROBERT HULLOT-KENTOR

What Is Mechanical Repruducrion? 158

CRITICAL DISCOURSE /

REPRESENTATION 171,175

ABSENCE / KERSTIN BEHNKE

The Destrucrion of Representation: Walter Benjamin's Artwork Essay in the Present Age 179

AURA / KLAUS WEIMAR

Texr-Crirical Remarks et Alia 188

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FETISH / RITUAL

APPARATUS / HENNING RITTER

Toward rhe Artwork Essay, Second Version

AURA / HORST WENZEL

The Reverenr Gaze: Toward the Cultic Function u( the Artwork in the Premodem and the Postmodern Age

HISTORY / PERICLES LEWIS

Walrer Benjamin In rhe Informarion Age? 011 the Limited Possibilities (ar a De(etishizing Critique o( Cu/ture

POLITICS / NIELS WERBER

Media Theory After Benjamin and Brechr: Neo-Marxisr?

AURA / STEPHEN G. NICHOLS

The End of Aura? 256

PRESENCE / BRIAN NEVILLE AND BILL READINGS

A Commonplace in Walrer Benjamin 269

TECHNOLOGY / JOSHUA FEINSTEIN

If Ir Were Only for Real

PRESENCE / ABSENCE

HISTORY / ROBERT P. HARRISON

Piera

RITUAL / STEPHEN BANN

Confronring Benjamin

Bibliography 325

Indexes: Names and Tirles 337/ Conceprs 343

HI STORY / PO LITI C S 239,243

1\PPARATUS / ]OÄO CEZAR DE CASTRO ROCHA

Museums of rhe Presenr: Rimbaud Reads Ben;amin 249

AUTHENTICITY / MARfA ROSA MENOCAL

The Flip Side

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