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Why Theory

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Is the Spectacle an Attribution of Art?

The reason why spectacle is anathema for us is that that work gave birth to, you know, Baudrillard. And so I feel like that there's this whole denigration of spectacle. But for Benjamin, it's actually that spectacle is the liberatory side of the work of art which is hard to think about. So I don't understand, it's hard for me to understand how why he thinks the spectacle value of a work of art is emancipatory.

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