From Cult to Code: Tracing the History of the Aura in Art

Walter Benjamin is not a household name. But he should be. In 1936, this German philosopher and cultural critic wrote an essay that predicted, with startling precision, almost everything that has happened to art since. He described what it would feel like when images became infinitely copyable. He anticipated the strange hollowness of standing in [ ] The post From Cult to Code: Tracing the History…