I originally made this after seeing this bad NFT crypto art take, but it turns out this person does understand Benjamin, they just also are an avowed fascist
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yelling "read walter benjamin" at my screen every day on twitter dot com
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I was just informed that she runs a so-called "COVID Æesthetics" club, which one the one hand, I'm feeling extremely vindicated by this revelation confirming the infallibility of the immortal science of dialectical materialism - but on the other hand, this fucking sucks dude
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Person: so this NFT drop was inspired by Walter Benjamin's text on culture in an age of mechanical reproduction, and
Me: ooh, which part? was it the one where he says that fascism will reproduce any and all images to serve its interests, regardless of authorial intent?
Person: no
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