{"product_id":"returning-to-benjamin-victor-burgin","title":"Returning to Benjamin  - Victor Burgin","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e‘In the mid-1930s, Walter Benjamin posed the question of the relation of art to the dominant representational technology of his time: photography and film. To return to the artwork essay today in the spirit in which it was written is to ask the same question in respect of the hegemonic representational technology of our own time: the digital. Benjamin found that the medium of photography and film had dissolved the auratic quality of art. Digital technology has dissolved the very category of ‘medium’ itself.’ \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWalter Benjamin’s essay of cultural criticism ‘The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction’ has become a ‘classic’ text, one which resonated through the twentieth century and beyond. In this succinct and pointed new essay, the artist and writer Victor Burgin rereads Benjamin’s 1935 text, to elaborate a new argument contending that the camera today is profoundly imbricated in that which is not visible.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDISCOURSE is a series of small books in which a theorist, artist, or writer engages in a dialogue with a theme, an artwork, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ean idea, or another individual across an extended text. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eExplore\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e the full series \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/mackbooks.co.uk\/collections\/discourse\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/mackbooks.co.uk\/collections\/discourse\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ehere\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePaperback with flap\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e12.5 x 19.5 cm, 40 pages\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOctober 2022\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"MACKBOOKS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43653931532512,"sku":"","price":12.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0345\/2121\/9205\/products\/ReturningtoBenjamin_angled_mock_860x_2987690b-0e14-4173-a1e9-5f9d2eaf3938.jpg?v=1668167593","url":"https:\/\/todomodo.live\/en\/products\/returning-to-benjamin-victor-burgin","provider":"Todo Modo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}