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A review by mirivii
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Walter Benjamin
challenging
reflective
slow-paced
2.75
The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.
Then proceeds, for 50 pages, to drag moving pictures through the mud.
Such dated stands on cinema are very interesting to read nowadays. There is a bit where W.B. sees the painter doing a cohesive work of art that gas to be taken in its entirety, while the cameraworker chops and puts it back together. This whole vision falls completely with one-take movies.
Is this what we are doing with AI at the moment, failing to see the potential and only focusing on the degenerative part?
Such dated stands on cinema are very interesting to read nowadays. There is a bit where W.B. sees the painter doing a cohesive work of art that gas to be taken in its entirety, while the cameraworker chops and puts it back together. This whole vision falls completely with one-take movies.
Is this what we are doing with AI at the moment, failing to see the potential and only focusing on the degenerative part?