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Saturday, 8 December 2012

delenda est

Posted on 11:06 by Unknown


"Mankind, which in Homer’s time was an object of contemplation for the Olympian gods, is now one for itself. Its self-alienation has reached such a degree that it can experience its own destruction as aesthetic pleasure of the first order." -- Walter Benjamin, "The Work of Art in The Age of Mechanical Reproduction."
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