#redemption through reproduction. so true walter benjamin we're really in it now

[duinoelegies]

[...] while technology is not neutral, it can prefigure redemption through reproduction. Meanwhile, the claim that democratising the reproductive technologies, each participant of the Lehrstücke having their own apparatus, inevitably results in banality (‘if each of us possessed our own walkie-talkie or Kodak, and made his or her own films, we know what would result: personalised amateurism, the equivalent of Sunday bricolage on the periphery of the system‘) would suggest that Baudrillard had never listened to London pirate radio.

Owen Hatherley, Militant Modernism