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The Mona Lisa and Inter Passivity

The Mona Lisa scandalizes Benjamin a little bit. Can you tell me more about why that would be? He doesn't have any theoretical room for inner passivity because he's all about the way in which, and this is what we'll get to later, the destruction of aura actually allows for activity on the part of the audience. By the way, just a slight note, a slight tangent on inter passivity. I was noticing that you can pay for your seats at a baseball game and they could put a cardboard cut out in the place of you. And so it's not even a machine recording the action for you. It's really a cardboard thing that's watching in your

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