The Degeneracy of German Literary Criticism

We are living in an age were the technology that has been introduced has made practically everything about our lives mass reproducible. The cloud here, to walter ben hamean, is the destruction of the aesthetic experience of the past. We have technologied our way into a place where we lacked the tools necessary to even critique the world around us. It'd be like trying to take a mortar and pestle and using it to grind up steel.