Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-336) and indexes.
Contents:
The unique appearance of distance / Dirk Baecker -- Aesthetics of media: what is the cost of keeping Benjamin current? / Norbert Bolz -- There are no mass media / Bernhard Siegert -- Connecting Benjamin: the aesthetic approach to technology / Karlheinz Barck -- History after film / Peter Gilgen -- Digitized analogies / Richard Shiff -- The photomonteur recycled: a Benjaminiam epilogue to Heartfield's 1991 Berlin retrospective / Walter Moser -- From aura-loss to cyberspace: further thoughts on Walter Benjamin / Siegfried J. Schmidt -- How to make mistakes on so many things at once--and become famous for it / Antoine Hennion and Bruno Latour -- Between Goethe's and Spielburg's "aura": on the utility of a nonoperational concept / Jürgen Link -- From mechanical reproduction to electronic representation / Roger Chartier -- Aura hysteria or the lifted gaze of the object / Ursula Link-Heer -- "The cameraman and machine are now one": Walter Benjamin's Frankenstein / Lindsay Waters -- Concerning two "encounters" with Walter Benjamin: the reproducibility of art / Paul Zumthor -- Air from other planets blowing: the logic of authenticity and the prophet of the aura / Aleida Assmann and Jan Assmann -- What is mechanical reproduction? / Robert Hullot-Kentor -- The destruction of representation: Walter Benjamin's artwork essay in the present age / Kerstin Behnke -- Text-critical remarks et Alia / Klaus Weimar -- Toward the artwork essay, second version / Henning Ritter -- The reverent gaze: toward the cultic function of the artwork in the premodern and the postmodern age / Horst Wenzel -- Walter Benjamin in the information age? on the limited possibilities for a defetishing critique of culture / Pericles Lewis -- Media theory after Benjamin and Brecht: neo-Marxist? / Niels Werber -- Museums of the present: Rimbaud reads Benjamin / João Cézar de Castro Rocha -- The end of aura? / Stephen G. Nichols -- A commonplace in Walter Benjamin / Brian Neville and Bill Readings -- If it were only for real -- Joshua Feinstein -- The flip side / María Rosa Menocal -- Post-Benjamin / Beatriz Sarlo -- Pietá / Robert P. Harrison -- Confronting Benjamin / Stephen Bann.
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