Clockwork orange and the age of mechanical reproduction

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Benjamin believes that with the destruction of tradition, laboratory potentialities are nonetheless createdThe process of the destruction of aura through mass reproduction brings about the "destruction of traditional modes of experience through shock," in response new forms of experience are created which attempt to cope with that shock"Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking one element: its presence in time and space, it's unique existence at the place where it happens to beThis unique existence of the work of art determined the history to which it was subject throughout the time of its existenceThe authenticity of a thing is the essence of all that is transmissible from its beginning" when substantive duration ceases to matter, he says, the authority of the object is threatened(Think, for example of Alex's response to high art...) "technology has subjected the human sensorium to a complex kind of training