Walter Benjamin a nove media

• Authors: Jaromir Volek

Title variants

EN

WALTER BENJAMIN A NOVA MEDIA

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

he article deals with reading of Walter Benjamin’s works focused on new media. The article puts specific emphasis on the notions of ‘aura’ and ‘flaneur,’ two well-known themes in Benjamin´s scholarship. The article argues for the inseparability of old and new, modern and postmodern theory of media and illustrates their close connections in Benjamin’s texts. The author presents a sceptical view of the idea that the advent of digital new media is connected by necessity to a major historical break. He concludes that Benjamin’s theory of new media is highly useful for describing and understanding the current new media communication and subjectivity.

Keywords

EN

AURATIC EXPERIENCE; AUTHENTIC AURA; CRITICAL THEORY OF MEDIA; ERLEBNIS; ERFAHRUNG; FLANEUR; NEW MEDIA; MODERN SHOCK

• Publisher: Fakulta masmediálnej komunikácie Univerzita sv. Cyrila a Metoda
• Journal: Communication Today
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 3
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 6-23

Contributors

author

Jaromir Volek

• Fakulta socialnych vied, Masarykova univerzita, Jostova 10, Brno, CESKA REPUBLIKA