Benjamin, W. (1936). The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction. Retrieved March 8, 2006, from http://www.marxists.org ... y/works/ge/benjamin.htm
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"The presence of the original is the prerequisite to the concept of authenticity ... The whole sphere of authenticity is outside technical – and, of course, not only technical – reproducibility."
Benjamin, W. (2019). The storyteller essays. New York Review of Books.
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“This process of assimilation, which takes place deep inside us, requires a state of relaxation that is becoming ever rarer. If sleep is the height of physical relaxation, then boredom is that of mental relaxation. Boredom is the dream bird that broods the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves is enough to scare it away. Its nests—those activities intimately connected to boredom—have already died out in the cities and are declining in the countryside as well. With them, the gift of listening is being lost, and the community of listeners is disappearing. ”
“The era is past when time did not matter. Today no one cultivates what cannot be created quickly.” Indeed, we have even managed to abbreviate stories. We have witnessed the development of the “short story,” which has withdrawn from the oral tradition and no longer allows for that slow accumulation of thin, translucent layers which offers the most fitting image of the process in which the perfect story is revealed through the stratification of numerous retelling”
