I must say that this reading is much easier to follow than Manovich's essay. I like Benjamin's theory of the cult basis coming from new medias like graphic design and even more so film; that the aura of the artwork is still mysterious and unfamiliar, changing to a functional basis when the progression of the media itself is revealed. I may not have understood that idea fully but that's the overall gist I got from the theory.
A lot of points like the cult basis and production basis are interesting and I appreciate how Walter Benjamin not only ties in cultural and social aesthetics when analyzing artwork and medias but also the political, economical, and proletariat aspects too. I wish he tied more of his epilogue into the reading because to me it threw me off.
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