{"id":2834,"date":"2010-01-11T13:37:31","date_gmt":"2010-01-11T11:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/?p=2834"},"modified":"2010-02-23T14:33:20","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T12:33:20","slug":"the-work-of-art-in-the-age-of-mechanical-reproduction-part-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/the-work-of-art-in-the-age-of-mechanical-reproduction-part-4\/","title":{"rendered":"The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction, part 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome back to the fourth installment of &#8220;How to write like Walter Benjamin,&#8221; where you are invited to learn how to write art theory \u2014\u00a0with a little effort on your part, you&#8217;ll be writing in no-time!<\/p>\n<p>This tutorial, which clocks in at around one hour, contains chapter 2 of the essay, and since it&#8217;s a bit long you might want to take a break half-way through, or at least warm up your hand to minimize cramping.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re using the 1935 essay &#8220;The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction,&#8221; as translated by Andy Blunden. (UCLA translation, on Wikipedia)<\/p>\n<p>Some people have asked if they have to use the same setup as I when writing, and the answer is in one word &#8220;no.&#8221; You can write by hand on paper or on a computer, and you are welcome to type as well \u2014\u00a0the point is to teach you how to write art theory, not to do it in a particular way.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"640\" height=\"400\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=8632695&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=0&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=00adef&amp;fullscreen=1\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=8632695&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=0&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=00adef&amp;fullscreen=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome back to the fourth installment of &#8220;How to write like Walter Benjamin,&#8221; where you are invited to learn how to write art theory \u2014\u00a0with a little effort on your part, you&#8217;ll be writing in no-time! This tutorial, which clocks in at around one hour, contains chapter 2 of the essay, and since it&#8217;s a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/the-work-of-art-in-the-age-of-mechanical-reproduction-part-4\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction, part 4<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[546,7],"tags":[21,1235,1172,1236,1171,465],"class_list":["post-2834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-projects","category-video","tag-animation","tag-art-theory","tag-originality","tag-reproduction","tag-walter-benjamin","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2834"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3120,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2834\/revisions\/3120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}