London South Bank University (9681)
The TV is still used to broadcast messages.
Students gaze at it hopefully seeking illumination.
Distance
and Aura
'This essay will focus on one of the common themes shared by Walter
Benjamin and Paul
Virilio: the disruption caused by a cultural artifact, specifically,
new communication technology (film in the case of Benjamin, telecommunication
in the case of Virilio) in the familiar patterns of human perception;
in short, intervention of technology into human nature. This theme
features prominently in Benjamin's celebrated "The Work of
Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" (1936); half a
century later, Virilio returns to it in an essay which presents
one of the most interesting critiques of cyberculture to date
- "Big Optics" (1992).'
Lev Manovich
Film/Telecommunication
- Benjamin/Virilio Lev Manovich
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