The work of art in the age of biocybernetic reproduction

Modernism - Modernity

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 481-500

  Mitchell, W J T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

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EID: 61149197532     PISSN: 10716068     EISSN: 10806601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/mod.2003.0067     Document Type: Review

References (17)

1. Katherine Hayles, How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics (Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1999)
2. Georgio Agamben, Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998)
3. See The Language of New Media (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2001)
4. For more on this phenomenon, see Lev Manovich, The Language of New Media, 54
5. Barbassi's remarks are quoted in Jeremy Manier, "Evolving Internet Boggles the Mind of Its Originators," Chicago Tribune, October 6, 2002: 1
6. Northrop Frye, Fearful Symmetry (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1947), 416
7. Roland Barthes, "The Photographic Message," in Image/Music/Text, trans. Stephen Heath (New York: Hill & Wang, 1977), 19
8. Raymond Bellour, "The Double Helix," in Electronic Culture: Technology and Visual Representation, ed. Timothy Druckrey (New York: Aperture, 1996), 173-99
9. Among Haraway's recent publications on this subject, see Modest-Witness@Second Millenium.FemaleMan-Meets-OncoMouse (New York: Routledge, 1997)
10. See also The Cyborg Hand-book, ed. Chris Hables Gray (New York: Routledge, 1995)
11. Kittler, Gramaphone, Film, Typewriter, 1
12. Each of these transformations has, of course, been discussed extensively in the literature on Benjamin and in other contexts. The problem of the copy is perhaps most famously theorized in Baudrillard's concept of the simulacrum, and the problem of temporality has been discussed extensively by Fredric Jameson. For a recent treatment of this issue, see Jameson, "The End of Temporality," Critical Inquiry, forthcoming Summer 2003
13. Walter Benjamin, "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction," in Illuminations, ed. Hannah Arendt (New York: Shocken Books, 1969), 223-4
14. Walter Benjamin, "The Work of Art," 247
15. T.J. Clark, Farewell to an Idea (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999), 1
16. Theodor Adorno, Minima Moralia, trans. E.F.N. Jephcott (London: Verso, 1947), 115
17. Pollack, Signs of Life (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1994), 66-7