bibliography
www sites
"The Work of Art..." (essay in full): http://www.pixels.filmtv.ucla.edu/community/julian_scaff/benjamin/benjamin.html
"Architecture in the Age of Hyperreality": http://www.saed.kent.edu/Architronic/v2nl/v2n1.06.html
"Art and the Age of Digital Reproduction", Artpark DOCUMENTIA
http://www.bconnex.net/~curator/Docs/repro.html
"aura": http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/~ensp982/mnookin/aura.html
"On auras, authors, and access: the work of art in the age of
digital reproduction": http://www.arts.ucsb.edu/~nideffer/245/theory.html
"Beginning with Benjamin": http://www.uta.edu/english/dab/music/benj.html
"Clockwork Orange and the Aestheticisation of Violence":
http://remarque.berkeley.edu:8001/~xcohen/C_Blectures/ClockworkOrange/Benj-CultIndustr_clckwrk.html
"Detours and Delays: an occasional Journal of Aesthetics and Politics":
http://art.derby.ac.uk/~detours/detours.html
"Das Kunstwek in Zeitalter seiner technischen Reproduzierbarkeit":
http://www.arhitektur.uni-stuggart.de1200/fakultaet/igp/twa/html/twa-benjamin
"Distance is the opposite of closeness": http://www.backspace.org/camerawork/distance/
"From Silver to Silicon": http://www.artec.org.uk/silver/s2s_intro2.html
"The possibility of art in the age of digital reproduction and
mass communication": http://www.tristero.com/~aacme/glass/views.html
"The Work of Art in the Age of Digital Reproduction: An evolving
thesis/1991-95": http://da.awa.com:801artnet/artnetweb/views/davis/davis.html
books
John Berger, Ways of Seeing, London, Penguin, 1972
Andrew Benjamin & Peter Osborne (eds), Walter Benjamin's Philosophy: Destruction and Philosophy, London, Routledge, 1994. See esp. Rodolphe Gasché, "Objective Diversions: On Some Kantian Themes in Benjamin's 'The
Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction', pp. 183 -
204; Gertrud Koch, "Cosmos in Film: On the Concept of Space in
Walter Benjamin's 'Work of Art' Essay" pp. 205 - 215.
Norbert Bolz & Willem van Reijan, Walter Benjamin, trans. Laimdota Mazzarins, Humanities Press, New Jersey, 1996
Susan Buck-Morss, The Origin of Negative Dialectics: Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin
and the Frankfurt Institute, New York, Macmillan Free Press, 1977
Susan Buck-Morss, The Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project, Cambridge, Mass, MIT, 1995
John Carey, The Intellectuals and the Masses: Pride and Prejudice among the
Literary Intelligentsia, 1880-1939, Faber & Faber, London & Boston, 1992
Howard Caygill, Walter Benjamin: The Colour of Experience, Routledge, 1997
H.U. Gumbecht, M. Marrinan, eds., Mapping Benjamin: The Work of Art in the Digital Age, Stanford University Press, 1995
Charles Harrison & Paul Wood, eds., Art in Theory 1900-1990; an Anthology of Changing Ideas, Oxford, Blackwell, 1992.
Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: a History of the Frankfurt School
and the Institute of Social Research, 1923-1950, Berkeley, 1973
R. Markner, T. Weber (eds) Literatur über Walter Benjamin: Kommentierte Bibliographie, 1983
- 1992, Hamburg, Argument, 1993. For translations, cf. Momme Brodersen,
Walter Benjamin: eine kommentierte Bibliographie, Morsum, Cicero-Presse, 1995.
Drew Milne, ed., The Benjamin Reader, Blackwell 1997
Pierre Missac, Walter Benjamin's Passages, (trans. Shierry W. Nicholsen), Cambridge, Mass, MIT, 1995
The Museum at FIT, New York (catalogue), Metamorphoses, Photography in the Electronic Age, New York 1994
Mark Poster, The Second Media Age, Cambridge, Polity Press, 1995, pp. 13-16. See also Mark Poster,
The Mode of Information, Cambridge, Polity Press, 1990.
John A. Walker, Art in the Age of Mass Media, London, Pluto, 1983
Paul Wombell (ed), Photovideo: Photography in the Age of the Computer, London, Rivers Oram, 1991
articles
Jean Baudrillard, Stuart Hall, Paul Virilio " The Work of Art
in the Electronic Age", Block, No.14, 1988, pp.3-14
A. Bohm," Artful Reproduction, Benjamin's appropriation of Behre,
Adolf das 'Reproduktive Zeitalter' in the Kunstwerk essay", Germanic Review, vol.68, no.4, 1993, pp.146-155
Nicolas Bourriaud, "The Work of Art in the Age of Ecological Recycling:
Benjamin's Aura turns Green",Flash Art, Vol.25, No. 167, 1992, pp. 60-63
Susan Buck-Morss, "Aesthetics and Anaesthetics: Walter Benjamin's Artwork Essay Reconsidered ",
New Formations, no.20, 1993, pp. 123-143
Douglas Davis, "The Work of Art in the Age of Digital Reproduction (An
Evolving Thesis: 1991-1995)", Leonardo, Vol.28, No. 5, 1995, pp. 381-386
Hans Magnus Enzensberger, "Constituents of a Theory of the Media"
in Raids and Reconstructions, London, Pluto, 1970, pp.20-53.
Wolfgang Faust, "Xmal Kunst - der Abschied vom Original", ART: das Kunstmagazin, pt.5, 1991, pp.72-84
Hal Foster, "Auratic Traces" in Compulsive Beauty, Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press, 1993, pp. 193-206
Hal Foster, "Whatever happened to Postmodernism?", in, The Return of the Real, MIT Press, 1996, pp. 205-226
B. Fowler, "The Hegemonic Work-of-Art in the Age of Electronic
Reproduction - an assessment of Bourdieu, Pierre", Theory, Culture & Society, vol.II, no.1, 1994, pp.129-154
Miriam Hansen, "Benjamin, Cinema and Experience: 'The Blue Flower in
the Land of Technology'", New German Critique, 40 (1987) pp.179 - 224
N. Heinich, "L'aura de Walter Benjamin: note sur 'L'oeuvre d'art
à l'ére de sa reproductibilité technique", Actes de la Recherche en Science Sociales, No. 49, 1983, pp. 107-9
Michelle Henning, "Digital Encounters: mythical pasts and electronic presence",
in Martin Lister (ed), The Photographic Image in Digital Culture, London, Routledge, 1995, pp.218-235
Peter Jukes, "The Work of Art in the Domain of Digital Production",
in, New Statesman & Society, 17 July 1992, pp. 40-41.
Ian Knizek, "Walter Benjamin and the Mechanical Reproduction of
Artworks Revisited", British Journal of Aesthetics, vol.33, no.4, October 1993, pp.357-66
Esther Leslie, "Walter Penetrates Deeply into the Web", Mute, Winter 1997, Issue 7. For an earlier version, see Introductory essay.
Esther Leslie, "The Work of Art in the Age of Unbearable Capitulation.",
in Technoid Marxism: Walter Benjamin and Overpowering Conformism, (forthcoming).
Martin Lister, "The Living Death of Photography", Ffotofactions, exhibition catalogue, Chapter Arts Centre & Ffoto Gallery, 1993.
Celia Lury, "Popular Culture and the Mass Media", in R. Bocock
& K. Thompson, eds., Social and Cultural Forms of Modernity,, Polity Press 1992, pp.367-416
J. Hillis Miller, "The Work of Cultural Criticism in the Age of
Digital Reproduction", in Illustration, Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1992.
Radek Horacek, "Aura umeleckeho dila ve veku jeho technicke reprodukovatelnosti",
Vytvarne Umeni, pt.5-6, 1993, pp.90-93.
Hunter College Art Gallery, "Micro-macro: the work of art in the
age of the microcomputer", catalogue, New York, 1990
Brian McLaren, "Under the Sign of Reproduction",Journal of Architectural Education, vol.45, Feb 1992, pp.98-106
Roger Malina, "Digital Image - Digital Cinema: the work of art
in the age of post-mechanical reproduction", in, Leonardo, Digital Supplemental Issue,1990, pp. 33-38.
Pierre Musso, "Le projet de métafort d'Aubervilliers à l'ére de
la production machinique de l'oeuvre d'art", Revue d'Esthètique, No. 25, 1994, pp.123-32.
Bill Nichols, "The Work of Culture in the Age of Cybernetic Systems",
Screen, Vol. 29, No. 2, Winter 1988, pp. 22-45.
Geoffrey Nunberg, "The Place of Books in the Age of Electronic
Reproduction", Representation, 42, Spring 1998, pp.13-37
A. B. Oliva, "Il Mercato come Opera d'Arte", Op.Cit, No. 57. 1983, pp.5-12
B. Oliver, "No Recording Please; This is Art - or, What do Cynthia
Hawkins and Benjamin, Walter have in common (not) (the effect
of the Reproducibility/reproduction of art works in their so-called
aura)?", South African Journal of Philosophy, vol.15, no.1, 1996, pp. 8-14
Carter Ratcliff, "The Work of Roy Lichtenstein in the age of Walter
Benjamin's and Jean Baudrillard's popularity", Art in America, vol.77, February 1989, pp.110-123
Jerome Stolnitz, "On the Apparent Demise of Really High Art",
The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, vol.43, Summer 1985, pp.345-358
Nell Tenhaaf, "Pandora Revisited: art and new technologies: the
camera and the computer in the historical context of early-twentieth-century
art and theory", Journal of Architectural Education, vol.40, Summer 1987, pp.18-23
Sidney Tillim, "Benjamin Rediscovered: The Work of Art After the
Age of Mechanical Reproduction", Artforum, 21, no.5, May 1983, pp.65-73
D. Tuer, "Four Questions upon the Reception of the Work of Art
in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction", C, No. 3, 1984
Peter Wollen, "Modern Times: Cinema/Americanisation/The Robot", in Raiding the Icebox, pp. 35-71.
selected work by Walter Benjamin and contemporaries
Gesammelte Schriften, 7 vols., Rolf Tiedemann & Hermann Schweppenhauser, eds., with
the collaboration of Theodor W. Adorno and Gershom Scholem, Frankfurt
am main, Surhrkamp Verlag, 1972-.
Walter Benjamin: selected writings, volume 1, 1913-1926, edited by Marcus Bullock & Michael Jennings,
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1996.
Theodor Adorno "Letter to Benjamin" in Rodney Livingstone et al,
eds., Aesthetics and Politics, trans. Ronald taylor et al, London, New Left Books, 1977, p.120-126
Walter Benjamin, " The Author as Producer", in Understanding Brecht, trans. Anna Bostock, London, Verso, 1983, pp. 85-103.
Walter Benjamin, "A Small History of Photography", in One-Way Street and Other Writings, trans. Edmund Jephcott & Kingsley Shorter, London, Verso, 1985,
pp. 240-257.
Walter Benjamin, "Surrealism: the Last Snapshot of the European
Intelligentsia", New Left Review, no.108, 1978, pp. 47-56.
Walter Benjamin, "The Task of the Translator", in Illuminations, trans. Harry Zohn, London, Fontana, 1992 pp. 70-82.
Walter Benjamin, "Theses on the Philosophy of History", in Illuminations, trans. Harry Zohn, London, Fontana, 1992 pp. 245-255.
Walter Benjamin, "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction",
in Illuminations, trans. Harry Zohn, London, Fontana, 1992 pp. 211-244.
interviews
Andrew Benjamin, interview, London, February 1996
Susan Buck-Morss, interview, London, February 1996
archive of comments
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