“Politicizing Art”: Benjamin’s Redemptive Critique of Technology in the Age of Fascism
Forgetting is the primordial divinity, the venerable ancestor and the first presence of what, in a later generation, will give rise to Mnemosyne, mother of the Muses. The essence of memory is therefore forgetting: the forgetfulness of which one must drink in order to die. ~Blanchot
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