...present, and so we mint tokens of them. In fact, we are driven in this not only by need but by desire. "Every day the urge grows stronger to get hold of...close range by way of its likeness, its reproduction. Unmistakably, reproduction as offered by picture magazines and newsreels differs from the image seen...

...ardent as their bent toward overcoming the uniqueness of every reality by accepting its reproduction. Every day the urge grows stronger to get hold of an...close range by way of its likeness, its reproduction. 36 Here then, the closeness and empathy traditionally associated with femininity is tied to the liquidation...

...reproduction" (223). A collective fetishism devoted to equivalent qualities and exchange values sets in: "Every day the urge grows stronger to get hold of...object at very close range by way of its likeness," says Benjamin, in terms very similar to the ones that had been used by Sir James Frazer in defining...

...ardent as their bent toward overcoming the uniqueness of every reality by accepting its reproduction. Every day the urge grows stronger to get hold of an...close range by way of its likeness, its reproduction. Unmistakably, reproduction as offered by picture magazines and newsreels differs from the image seen...

...says, "a new schooling for our mimetic powers."1 The Eye as Organ of Tactility: The Optical Unconscious Every day the urge grows stronger to get hold of an object at very dose range by way of its likeness, its reproduction. — Walter Benjamin, "The Work of Art in the Age...

...uniqueness of every reality by accepting its reproduction. Every day the urge grows stronger to get bold of an object at very close range by way of its likeness, its reproduction. Unmistakably, reproduction as offered by picture magazines and newsreels differs from the image seen...

...of the human penal system." 1936. "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction," p. 223. "Every day the urge grows stronger to get hold of...range by way of its likeness, its reproduction.... To pry an object from its shell, to destroy its aura, is the mark of a perception whose 'sense of the...

...ardent as their bent toward overcoming the uniqueness of every reality by accepting its reproduction. Every day the urge grows stronger to get hold of an...range by way of its likeness, its reproduction.... To pry an object from its shell, to destroy its aura, is the mark of a perception whose "sense of the...

...objects from their viewers constitutes their aura. Mechanical reproduction does away with that distance: Every day the urge grows stronger to get hold of an...close range by way of its likeness, its reproduction. Unmistakably, reproduction as offered by picture magazines and newsreels differs from the image seen...

...it may be."31 And the logic of the consumer's relation to the commodity annihilates this distance: "Every day the urge grows stronger to get hold of...object at very close range by way of its likeness, its reproduction."32 It is not accidental that the logic of consumerism and mechanical reproduction corresponds...