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The New Global Fascist Bloc: Part III; The God-Given Right to Rule, Pt I.
‘If someone just wanted to demonstrate ‘how it became what it is,’ in a prognosis after the event or in a philosophico-historical horoscope, it would be banal that not only books, but also expressions can be victims to their own fate.’
‘…that which withers in the age of mechanical reproduction is the aura of the work of art. This is a symptomatic process whose significance points beyond the realm of art. One might generalize by saying: the technique of reproduction detaches the reproduced object from the domain of tradition. By making many reproductions it substitutes a plurality of copies for a unique existence. And in permitting the reproduction to meet the beholder or listener in his own particular situation, it reactivates the object reproduced. These two processes lead to a tremendous shattering of tradition which is the obverse of the contemporary crisis and renewal of mankind. Both processes are intimately connected with the contemporary mass movements.’
Walter Benjamin, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, 1935 (1).
