The work of art in the age of its digitized reproduction

Digitizing puts the finishing touches to reproductibility, which was already involved in mechanical and analogical techniques. Inspired by Walter BenjaminÕs aesthetic theories about that issue, we point out that digitizing changes deeply the relations between understanding and feeling, and our approach in terms of time and archives. These digital documents are considered as « opus » in a new meaning, as far as collective receiving conditions, but also the political author profile, are concerned with this tranformation. A complex situation is coming, with new creating possibilities, through traditional culture subversion, and towards new ways of publishing added-value.
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