COMS 2003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Walter Benjamin, Hashish, Max Horkheimer

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Communication and Media Studies
• Course: COMS 2003
• Professor: Ira Wagman

Document Summary

Over time it has changed to refer to the thing itself. Revolutions in what we understand as media technologies, or in traditional language: techniques of representing: photography allows us to control time. Rewinding, capturing a still image, fast-forwarding, editing and cutting out certain parts . Visual art: walter benjamin; became famous after he died. Was a writer who was engaged with the. Frankfort school of research, but was never really in" with adorno and horkheimer: offers a view of mass production which is subtler than the view from adorno. He actually drove adorno crazy: benjamin was also jewish and a german intellectual and had a lot of other things in common with adorno. The concepts introduced in the theories of arts are useful for the formation of revolutionary demands in the politics of art. It"s a technique of political communication: fascism aestheticizes war.