The New Elite: from Digital Literature to a Printed Book
The New Elite: from Digital Literature to a Printed Book

Summary/Abstract: In his well-known essay “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” (first published in 1936), Walter Benjamin claimed that a work of art is characterised by an aura, which the viewer perceives as a sublime spell or devotion. In the age of mechanical reproduction this aura, according to Benjamin, is lost, because the work of art is no longer unique but reproduced, and the necessary distance for the aura to emerge between the work of art and the viewer has vanished.

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