Welcome to part twelve of “How to write like Walter Benjamin,” a series intended to help you to learn how to write proper art theory, using Walter Benjamins 1935 essay “The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction” in the Andy Blunden translation.
Chapter 10 clocks in at less than one hour, despite being a good bit longer than the previous chapter. If you haven’t done the previous tutorials, I recommend you to check those out before coming back to this one, especially as we’re getting into the home stretch of the essay, and those of you who’ve followed along should be rather comfortable with the exercise by now.