"Just as the entire mode of existence of human collectives changes over long historical periods, so too does their mode of perception. The way in which human perception is organized - the medium in which it occurs - is conditioned not only by nature but by history."
Walter Benjamin, "The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility" in Selected Writings,
vol. 4, 1938-1940, ed. Howard Eiland and Michael W. Jennings, trans.
Edmund Jephcott (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 2006), p. 255.
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