What Does Fascist Art Look Like? Reading Walter Benjamin

The ACFM crew gather for a close reading of one of the most important tracts of cultural and media theory of the last century: The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, written by Walter Benjamin in 1935.

Download the short text and follow along as Nadia, Keir and Jem consider how to identify fascist art, what gives an artwork its aura, and how the camera came to replace the eye.

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