Translated by Olga Vuković
Any man today can lay claim
to being filmed.
Walter Benjamin  Â
In the concluding paragraph of his legendary essay ‘The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction’ Walter Benjamin outlines a critique of the Fascist aestheticisation of politics. His crucial, and later frequently quoted, conclusion is encapsulated in the last two sentences: “This is the situation of politics which Fascism is rendering aesthetic. Communism responds by politicising art.” Read more