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Ep 152/153: Walter Benjamin - Coggle Diagram
Ep 152/153: Walter Benjamin
The Task of the Translator
Copy and paste does not work for translation; words can be blurry and misleading, phrases don't always mean the same thing directly as they do culturally. Languages don't translate directly.
There are good and bad ways to translate.
Translator is supposed to make translation as accessible as possible to reader. Choose the one that best expresses what is being said in the most simple of terms.
Is reproduction of art the same as the original form?
Technological predecessor to a photograph? The painting. Physical representation of real life
Expensive, need a talented artist, must see the painting as the artist does
Common people could not buy paintings because paintings were only attainable by the wealthy.
Translator just says what one language says in another language
Tower of Babel, create one unified language
Never consider the consumer in art. Art is self-expression and should only be created with the creator's vision in mind
Literary criticism =/= just criticizing literature
Does reading the world around us have an effect of the same degree as reading a book?
Technology has changed our experience of people
The contents of artwork =/= show the meaning
Depiction of artwork =/= the artwork itself
A picture of the moon does not truly capture the beauty of the moon.
A photograph captures reality outside of space and time. If artwork requires space and time, it must be considered that a photo is meant to reduce that space and time.
There is a difference between seeing the Mona Lisa and seeing a picture of the Mona Lisa
A selfie turns ourselves into the picture. We turn our likeness into a flat, reproducible image
Rise of the novel. Each person reads individually about an individual protagonist
Skill of concentration becomes important when reading and forming your own views
The cinema is a "training ground for modernity". Story is collectively given to a group of people. Storytelling for an audience of listeners.
Within a capitalist society: reproducing artwork must consider profit as an end goal, consider greatest production for least cost. Now, what art is the most profitable?
Pictures give you the ability to reflect and think. Moving pictures do not let you do so. Default state of art is for the person to absorb art in a constant state of distraction
Distraction: Absorbs art. You are able to take in the information without thinking of it deeply.
Concentration: Absorbed into art. This has become outdated. Being able to concentrate is now less important.
Trying to concentrate is overwhelming and can be impossible. Life in distraction is required to get things done.
We absorb the world as a distracted herd.
The ability to complete tasks in distraction shows that the completion is habitual.
There is a filter between the film and the spectators. The film needs funding from someone. The beneficiaries of the distracted herd also have the ability to choose what distractions are produced.
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