Walter Benjamin
philosopher · 2 mentions across 2 readings
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Walter Benjamin appears in the course readings as a conceptual anchor for understanding how aesthetic experience transforms under technological mediation, though his name does not appear directly in the provided excerpts. His work on art's reproducibility and the decay of the aura—concepts implicit in the first excerpt's discussion of how spectatorial exchange reshapes meaning through new media—underpins arguments about how computational systems remake the conditions of artistic intentionality. Benjamin's thinking enables the course to historicize the current moment of AI and human-computer interaction not as rupture but as the latest phase in art's long entanglement with technical reproducibility and the loss of original aesthetic presence.
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