Check out this brilliant, smart, clever, clean, effective design for the cover (yes, that’s the cover image) of a new edition of Benjamin’s “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.” Having read this many, many times at a few different schools, it’s fantastic to see a fresh, visually informative take on the cover of this oft-assigned text.
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ha – cool, nice find.
so i had a dream last night that involved high school, in which our school was part of some fascist society, kind of like a cross between nazi germany and the imperial occupation of cloud city. but a few of the teachers were smuggling out students, underground railroad-style. i woke up in the middle of the dream and thought to myself, “i am having a foucault dream!”
i don’t know if you had to ever read foucault but i associate him with reading benjamin and a lot of other theorists in college.
Many, many large gaps in my continental philosophy education … any entry recommendations for Foucault?
Your “cross between Nazi Germany and Cloud City” has me picturing Billy Dee Williams with a Hitler ‘stache. (Or perhaps Hitler with Lando Calrissian’s ‘stache … hmmmm.)
Wow, how do you read Benjamin without reading Foucault?
This is a wonderful image, and my recommendation for Foucault would be Discipline and Punish, which deals a lot with the theory of visual power. I believe you can read his entire section on the Panopticon here: http://cartome.org/foucault.htm