Sock Xu

As the film and photography crafts booming in early 1900s, Walter Benjamin published his worldly acknowledged essay, the work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction,which talks on the halo of the artworks. 

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In his age, the works can be easily filmed or reproduced by machine, while as he assumed, the halo, or the atmosphere where the art work was created, can never be reproduced. Thus the attribute of right here right now is the essence value of artworks in the age of mechanical reproduction.

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As the year goes, we stepped into information age, where everyone holds a halo, and share their atmosphere on the internet. The problem is that the halo itself wasn’t change, while the most valuable ones are overwhelm by the medic-ores.

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But the side-effect of this halo-share movement, is that people starts to share halos with others, coming to a place of collective here and there, representation a symbolic system which is the telepathy of the men share a halo.

Here is where artwork comes back to religion.