Into the Aura: Aura in the Age of Mechanical and Digital Reproducibility

What exactly is the aura? How does it function in a work of art? We begin our journey Into the Aura with the writing and thinking of Walter Benjamin, who first theorized the aura in a fraught historical moment marked by political extremism, social anxiety, and technological revolution. This episode is presented by Catherine Kim, Kyoung Hoon Kim, and Henry Hong.