The return of the Frankfurt School critique in the popularisation of new media

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_jiyoon kim

Once upon a time, People thoght art is owned by a special class. also art is for God. It is just my hinking. According to benjamin's writings, The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction killed trditional concept of art (example, creativity, genius, uniquely and ,...).
Nowdays, art interact various people each other. I think art re create by the mass of people. and art represent culture.

# NOTE

** The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction is a 1936 essay by German cultural critic Walter Benjamin, which has been influential in the fields of cultural studies and media theory. It was produced, Benjamin wrote, in the effort to describe a theory of art that would be "useful for the formulation of revolutionary demands in the politics of art". In the absence of any traditional, ritualistic value, art in the age of mechanical reproduction would inherently be based on the practice of politics. It is the most frequently cited of Benjamin's essays.

** Walter Benjamin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Benjamin

1.5.5 The return of the Frankfurt School ciritique in the popularisation of new media

The 'culture industry', the end of democratic participation and critical distance

• Strinati sums
• Alan Meek

Mass society critics feared four things

• The debasement and displacement of an authentic organic folk culture;
• the erosion of high cultural traditions, those of art and literature;
• loss of the ability of these cultural traditions (as the classical 'public sphere') to comment
• critically on society's values;
• the idoctrination and manipulation of the 'masses' by either totalitatian politics or market forces

Fascism and stalinism: totalitarianism

the tyranny of market , 'memr' consumers

active looking back to a pre mass culture

• the recovery of community
• the remaal of central authority, control
• online publishing
• virtual communities

The Brechtian avant-garde and lost opportunities

• Bertolt Brecht
• Walter Benjamin : the work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction
  

1.5.6 Conclusion

• amazing novelty of the possiblities that are opening up.