Returning to Benjamin: Art in the Age of AI anthropology and to not let anything

and to not let anything bring it down

Stijn van de Vyver and Zack Wellin

Tue Greenfort

living in a dank

a book authored by someone who even to today has captured the hearts of a lot of the people who follow Becoming’s activities

Returning to Benjamin: Art in the Age of AI anthropology and to not let anythingWalter Benjamins essay of cultural criticism The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction has become a classic text, one which resonated through the twentieth century and beyond. In it, Benjamin suggested the mediums of photography and film had dissolved the auratic quality of art. Today, digital technology has dissolved the very category of medium itself. In this pair of succinct and pointed essays, the artist and writer Victor Burgin