Walter Benjamin
philosopher · 2 mentions across 2 readings
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Walter Benjamin appears only as a passing reference in these excerpts, cited obliquely through theoretical genealogies rather than directly engaged. The reading invokes him implicitly through discussions of aesthetic meaning, intentionality, and the exchange between artwork and viewer—concepts central to his work on art's reproducibility and aura in mechanical reproduction. His thinking becomes relevant to "Pandaemonium Architecture" as it grapples with how digital and computational systems transform the relationship between creator, object, and audience that Benjamin theorized for the age of photography and film.
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