Walter Benjamin Discussion

• is technology, in a way, killing the original idea of art? has our affinity for electronics caused us to become reliant on their advanced capabilites to express our own creativity? is our own distracted society making it difficult for us to express our creativity? or is our creation of these technological distractions (movies, tv shows, dubstep music) the art of our time?

• Benjamin says, "The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses".  if this is true, does the use of technology designed to alter and enhance photos, such as photoshop, prove to be a way of delving into our own perceptions of what we see, or does it serve as a way of allowing us to mask what is happening in that millisecond the photo was taken, with what we WANT to see and show others? 

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