Posted: December 19th, 2014

Journal 101 Week 12 write an "informal" journal about the articles I will be uploading. summarize and talk about each of them and then play them either with or against each other. there has to be a connection between the two whether they were presenting something similar or different. No bibliography needed. Walter Benjamin 193

Journal 101 Week 12

write an “informal” journal about the articles I will be uploading. summarize and talk about each of them and then play them either with or against each other. there

has to be a connection between the two whether they were presenting something similar or different. No bibliography needed.

Walter Benjamin 1939
WIN-a
The Work of Art in the
Age of Its Technological
O C O
ReprodUCibility
Third VerSion
Our fine arts were developed, their types and uses were established, in times
very different from the present, by men whose power of action upon things
was insignificant in comparison with ours. But the amazing growth of our
techniques, the adaptability and precision they have attained, the ideas
and habits they are creating, make it a certainty that profound changes
are impending in the ancient craft of the Beautiful. In all the arts, there
is a physical component which can no longer be considered or treated as
it used to be, which cannot remain unaffected by our modern knowledge
and power. For the last twenty years, neither matter nor space nor time has
been what it was from time immemorial. We must expect great innovations
to transform the entire technique of the arts, thereby affecting artistic
invention itself and perhaps even bringing about an amazing change in our
very notion of art.
-Paul Valery, Pieces 5147/ 217′! (‘La Conquéte de l’ubiquité’)
Introduction
When Marx undertook his analysis of the capitalist mode of production, this
mode was in its infancy.1 Marx adopted an approach which gave his investi-
gatléns prognostic value. Going back to the basic conditions of capitalist pro-
duc‘tlou, he presented them in a way which showed what could be expected of
figfifiémlinhthe future. What could be expected, it emerged, was not only an
ofcondli’gigoy eprOitation of the proletariat but, ultimately, the creation
Since thrés w lel’) would make it pOSSlblC for capitalism to abolish itself.
than that of £7128 orrnation of the superstructure proceeds far more slowly
the conditions Cf 8.8621115 has taken more than a century for the change in
process has afl: tpcrio uction to be manifested in all areas of culture. How this
mu“ meet certaic 6 culture can only now be assessed, and these assessments
868 n prognostic requirements.’lhey do not, however, call for the-
OH the art of the proletariat aft ’t ‘ f d ’11 l f
on the art Ofthe class] ‘ er 1 s seizure 0 power, an sti ess or any
ofthc developme fess SOCiety. They call for theses defining the tendenCies
lectic ofthesC c aft under the present conditions ofproduction.’lhe dia-
than in the C on mom of production is evident in the superstructure, no less
Conomy. Theses defining the developmental tendencies of art can

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