# The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media

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Belknap Press / Harvard University Press

2008

<http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674024458>

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Edited by Michael W. Jennings, Brigid Doherty, and Thomas Y. Levin

Review by Susan Stewart. “This one-volume gathering of Benjamin’s dialectical writing on media of all kinds, ranging from children’s literature to cinema, has at its heart the second, most expansive version of his path-breaking essay ‘The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility.’ Readers familiar only with partial versions of this piece, where Benjamin began to record the melancholy loss of aesthetic presence at the turn of the twentieth century, will find their understanding transformed—for this second version, like all the essays and supplemental texts included here, explores a set of latent, utopian possibilities inherent in mechanical means of art-making. Benjamin, the visionary magus of particulars, reveals profoundly, and repeatedly, both the grounds and the consequences of our ever-changing image of the made world.”