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- Title
TECHNICAL REPRODUCTION AND THE QUESTION OF MATERIAL DURATION.
- Authors
KLIPPEL, HEIKE
- Abstract
Reproduction and repetition are movements that deny the passing of time. They aim at a duration of past and present into the future, thereby trying to overcome time's limits and constraints. For Marx, reproduction coincides with production; it means eternal renewal of technical processes as well as of human beings. According to Benjamin, the ubiquity and timelessness of reproduction media try to evade the consequences of history. Nowadays the conditions of historical media show that they age indeed, and often no original matrix exists any more as a base from which to enter the reproductive circle again. The modernist promise of eternity has meanwhile been renewed through the notion of "loss free" digital reproduction, an idea that in itself is a repetitive too. This text will discuss the implicit assumptions and desires of these concepts of reproduction.
- Subjects
HUMAN reproduction; HUMAN beings; HUMAN life cycle; DIGITAL technology; AGE
- Publication
Value Inquiry Book Series, 2017, Vol 299, p137
- ISSN
0929-8436
- Publication type
Article