Theme 2: Comments

Hello!
I also found it enlightening when it was explained that A&H were addressing culture and society in the form of American consumerism, and Benjamin saw things from a more positive and naïve point of view.
It's great that you talk about art for mass vs art for money and how it affects enlightenment.
You are right about how mass production of art decreases the aura of the original art object, but at the same time gives the common people more power.
Well reflected!

Great explanation of nominalism.
The example of the horse is a good example of the revolutionary potential of culture and technology, where it can change our perception of something.
I would have liked to know about more stuff you learnt during the week, like what you learned about about aura or other subjects brought up by Adorno & Horkheimer and Benjamin.

Hi!
This week really felt easier than the first one for me as well.
The way of using Plato's view on realism to help explain nominalism and it's connection to enlightenment is great.
I agree that it's very important to know of where the authors were in space and time when they wrote their texts to get why they thought as they did about culture.
You summarised the week in a great way!

Great reflection!
The way fascism inherits from nominalism was interesting, and your summarisation of A&H and Benjamin's thoughts about art's revolutionary potential was really good.
I think your explanation of aura is a little bit simplified since I believe it's about the uniqueness of objects. A new art object can have as much aura as an old one, it's only when they are reproduced that the aura is reduced.

Hello!
I too think that it was fundamental to know about the author's situation when they wrote their texts to really grasp their real meaning.
That enlightenment is complemented by nominalism was a great insight.
You explain what Benjamin and Adorno & Horkheimer thought about the revolutionary potential of culture in an easy to understand way, and your explanation of aura was great!