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Source: UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television; Translated: by Harry Zohn; Published: by Schocken/Random House, ed. by Hannah Arendt; Transcribed: by Andy Blunden 1998; proofed and corrected Feb. 2005. “Our fine arts were developed, their types and uses were established, in times very different from the present, by men whose power of action upon things was insignificant in comparison with ours. But the amazing growth of our techniques, the adaptability and precision they have attained, the ideas and habits they are creating, make it a certainty that profound changes are impending in the ancient craft of the Beautiful. In all the arts there is a physical component which can no longer be considered or treated as it used to be, which cannot remain unaffected by our modern knowledge and power. For the last twenty years neither matter nor space nor time has been what it was from time immemorial. We must expect great innovations to transform the entire technique of the arts, thereby aff

Walter Benjamin Walter Benjamin (1936) The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction Source: UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television ; Translated: by Harry Zohn; Published: by Schocken/Random House, ed. by Hannah Arendt; Transcribed: by Andy Blunden 1998; proofed and corrected Feb. 2005. “Our fine arts were developed, their types and uses were established, in times very different from the present, by men whose power of action upon things was insignificant in comparison with ours. But the amazing growth of our techniques, the adaptability and precision they have attained, the

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