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Episode #153 ... The Frankfurt School - Walter Benjamin pt. 2 - Distraction

Philosophize This!

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The Demise of the Oura

The decline of the oura even extends to our political leaders. Leaders can now put their voice on a radio or their face on a screen, and now they can directly communicate with masses of political subjects. Works of art, propaganda, films, radio programmes, books, videos, songs,. all these can now be mass reproduced and distributed to those masses. They can see themselves as a collective subject. At this point, identifying your as one of the masses becomes even easier. As people see the masses depicted in a particular light on their screens, could those images be producing the subjectivity of the masses themselves? Now if this were true, which benhemin thought it was then the implications of

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