Word: lacanian
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...self-referential gaze of the news camera has not escaped theory unnoticed. Walter Benjamin warned in 1937 that the aestheticization of politics would lead directly to war, and proposed a counter-strategy of politicizing aesthetics. But the mechanical reproducibility of which Benjamin wrote did not consist solely of such Lacanian moments-in-the-mirror as showing the masses a videotape of themselves. He was concerned more broadly that “the technique of reproduction detaches the reproduced object from the domain of tradition.” The image, reproduced ad nauseum, need no longer be encountered in context...
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