Notes
1
Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy, trans. Walter Kaufmann (New York: Vintage, 1967), 37.
2
Walter Benjamin, "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction," in Illuminations: Essay and Reflections, ed. Hannah Arendt, trans. H. Zohn (New York: Schocken Books, 1969), 242.
A version of this text was given as a lecture at Frieze Art Fair, London, on October 16, 2008.
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