Includes bibliographical references (p. [248]-287) and index.
Contents:
Reception in distractions / Howard Eiland -- The timing of elective affinity: Walter Benjamin's strong aesthetics / Joanna Hodge -- Materialist mutations of the Bilderverbot / Rebecca Comay -- Is there an answer to the aestheticizing of the political? / Peter Fenves -- Benjamin or Heidegger: aesthetics and politics in an age of technology / Beatrice Hanssen -- The work of art in the age of ontological speculation: Walter Benjamin revisited / Arne Melberg -- The mimetic bond: Benjamin and the question of technology / Fabrizio Desideri -- Aura, still / Robert Kaufman -- Walter Benjamin and the tectonic unconscious / Detlef Mertins -- Aura, face, photography: re-reading Benjamin today / Diarmuid Costello -- Benjamin on art and reproducibility: the case of music / Rajeev S. Patke -- The work of art in the age of its electronic mutability / Krzysztof Ziarek -- Rehearsing revolution and life: the embodiment of Benjamin's artwork essay at the end of the age of mechanical reproduction / Saul Ostrow.
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