[FRA:] Thinking Incognito: On Walter Benjamin

[James Rovira]

I think the critique is of Benjamin himself, not Benjamin's thought, which
is valuable because it reveals -him-.  It seems to me to present a weak
Benjamin who resolved being caught between contradictory positions by
appearing to agree with both of them while not agreeing with either, hence
a virtual reality.

"Work of Art..." always seemed to me to be capitulation to Brecht, though.

Jim R

On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 2:08 PM, <rdumain at autodidactproject.org> wrote:

>
> The authors go on and on about Benjamin's popularity for the '60s
> generation and today's, which apparently did and do not understand
> Benjamin's world. Not acknowledging Benjamin's counterfeiting undergirds
> the lack of genuine Benjamin criticism. Conclusion: "Virtual reality was
> what Benjamin was all about."
>
>  I don't know what to make of this, especially the conclusion.
>
>