Publication details
Walter Benjamin a nová média
| Title in English | Walter Benjamin and New Media |
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| Authors | |
| Year of publication | 2012 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Communication Today |
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| Citation | |
| Field | Mass media, audiovision |
| Keywords | auratic experience authentic aura critical theory of media Erlebnis Erfahrung flaneur the newest new media modern shock |
| Description | The article deals with reading of Walter Benjamin’s works focused on new media and places specific pressure on the notions of aura and flaneur, two well-known concepts in Benjamin scholarship. The article argues for the inseparability old and new, modern and postmodern theory of media and illustrates their close connections in Benjamin’s texts. The author agues a sceptical view of the idea that the advent of digital new media is connected by necessity to a major historical break. He concludes that Benjamin’s theory of the new media is highly useful for describing and understanding the current new media communication and subjectivity. |