Benjamin Constellation Theory _ What is Benjamin's theory?

How does Benjamin understand and treat "art in the era of mechanical reproduction"

Benjamin believes that the important role of mechanical reproduction art is to show its display function, serve the political struggle and become a tool for propaganda and agitation. How people appreciate and accept the art of mechanical reproduction is also a focus of Benjamin's attention. Benjamin saw that because of the implementation of compulsory education, the recipients of artistic works may become experts in a certain field.

Benjamin believes that mechanical reproduction technology can not only expand our visual experience, but also help the works of art to spread widely all over the world. A large number of identical mechanical reproduction works of art make the original unique works of art "authenticity" disappear.

Benjamin believes that another change brought by mechanical reproduction is that the aura of traditional works of art has disappeared. Art began to be created by many people according to a certain process. For example, the production of * * involves different jobs such as director, actor, producer, photographer, artist and sound engineer, as well as post-editing, special effects, printing and other production links. The creation of the creator of mechanical reproduction art is often fragmented, indifferent and subjective.

Extended data:

The main academic thoughts of Schon and Benjamin;

1, messianic time: His messianic interpretation of history is that he lost confidence in the redemption of this world, shed all teleological hopes, and sought redemption with amazing and brave dialectical strength in the darkness of historical life and the pain and misery after depravity.

2. Revolutionary philosophy: Benjamin used Wang Yang's arbitrary dialectics to summon a revolutionary aesthetics from the commodity form itself. The hollow and fossilized tragic object has lost its meaning, and the division between signifier and signified, like commodities, is only repeated forever in the empty and homogeneous time. This inanimate landscape, which is divided into the smallest units, has to be materialized for the second time with fictional symbols, inanimate words or inanimate manuscripts.

3. False unity: As the essence of certain information, the concept is not hidden behind the phenomenon, but a way of conceptual construction of the object in its diverse, extreme and contradictory factors.

4. Constellation concept: The constellation concept produced in the close cooperation between Benjamin and Adorno is perhaps the most striking and original effort of modern theory in breaking the traditional concept of totality. It has dealt a fatal blow to the totality of paranoia, although some thinkers still praise only fragments of experience.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Benjamin

Baidu Encyclopedia-Art Works in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction