Benjamin's essay The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction[1][2] is probably of great interest to HN readers: he states that reproduction releases a

Benjamin's essay The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction[1][2] is probably of great interest to HN readers: he states that reproduction releases art from the ritual of production. This applies to so many aspects of our modern digital lives. It's touched on in this essay when they note that Benjamin viewed modern writing, such as Kafka, as becoming secular, i.e. free from religious ritual: "where its laws and traditions are still present but have lost their meaning". Interesting stuff for our current times, e.g. as another extraction from the article reads: "how does human perception evolve over the course of history, as a result of social and technological change?" [1] https://web.mit.edu/allanmc/www/benjamin.pdf https://web.mit.edu/allanmc/www/benjamin.pdf [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Work_of_Art_in_the_Age_of_Mechanical_Reproduction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Work_of_Art_in_the_Age_of_...