"Mankind, which in Homer’s time was an object of contemplation for the Olympian gods, now is one for itself. Its self-alienation has reached such a degree that it can experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order."
— Walter Benjamin, ‘The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction’ (via littleeve)
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