Uploaded May 2018 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Valkyrist.wordpress.com — This video essay examines the philosophical response to moderism and the effects of urbanisation on the human being. In particular, it compares Georg Simmel's "The Metropolis and Mental Life" and Walter Benjamin's "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproductions."

Read the FULL TRANSCRIPT here (including citations): valkyrist.wordpress.com/2018/05/21/the-aura-of-modernism