Mankind, suggested Walter Benjamin, has becoming so self-alienated via the productive processes of capitalism, making itself the object of its own idle contemplation, that it can only experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order. Walter Benjamin, however, never had to sit through three minutes and twenty-nine seconds of the…
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