We're all meeting in the computer lab in 7 hours. That gives me and my "aura" plenty of time to blog out a good post. I just hope I don't wake my roommate up typing this.
Never really having looked at literature or any sort of work of art from the angle that we're discussing it now (Barthes, Walter), I have found it to be pretty interesting. The printing press, camera, tape recorder have all been pretty useful in my opinion as well as to anyone else who isn't Amish. From what I took away in Wednesday's class, I am led to believe that there is "aura" in this blog post, as well as every other single blog post, idea, picture, piece of work that is being produced for the first time. So the printing press, camera, and tape recorder all are responsible for killing aura because they take away the presence of originality and in essence, creativity. Modern technology has many benefits, but killing originality and creativity isn't one of them.
"Mechanical reproduction", according to Walter or someone in the class, "changes the reaction of masses towards art." This is pretty big. I didn't know one could incorporate something as doctrinal as the political practice of Marxism into an article involving something as abstract as "aura". Spreading the "wealth" of art to the common masses for the price of originality is an idea which seems obvious, but which I would never have related to Marxism.
I definitely didn't learn that in history 101.
I also wikipedia'd this to try to cleverly tie this into what we're doing in class tomorrow, and somehow incorporate it into this post. That didn't work out as planned, and neither did the conclusion of this post.
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