juno’s Reviews > The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction > Status Update

“… nowhere more than in the cinema do the individual reactions of the audience prove from the outset to be caused by their immediate imminent massing. And in making themselves heard, they check on one another.”

“… it’s being reproducible by technological means frees the work of art, for the first time in history, from its existence as a parasite upon ritual. The reproduced work of art is to an ever-increasing extent the reproduction of a work of art designed for reproducibility. […] Rather than being underpinned by ritual, it came to be underpinned by a different practice: politics.”