Aura 2.0: The Technoscientific Return of Art's Religious Value

In 1936 Walter Benjamin observed the “fading of [art's] aura" as it underwent mechanical reproduction. According to Benjamin, technological advances had initiated a shift in art as a medium of “cultic value" to art as a medium of “display value" (Benjamin 2008, 9, 12). Eighty yea...

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Main Author: Morelli, Michael (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Equinox [2017]
In: Implicit religion
Year: 2017, Volume: 20, Issue: 3, Pages: 245-257
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Benjamin, Walter 1892-1940, Das Kunstwerk im Zeitalter seiner technischen Reproduzierbarkeit / Aura (Philosophy) / Transhumanism / Art / Value / Religion
Further subjects:B Artificial Intelligence
B LITURGY & art
B Bioethics
B Religion
B Science
B ART & science
B Technological innovations
B EXPRESSIONISM (Art)
B Ethics
B Transhumanism
B Worship
B Technoscience
B Technology
B Genetics
B Liturgy
B Aesthetics
B Aura
B Species
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