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FILMMAKER ASTRA TAYLOR

SEES DOOMY FUTURE FOR

INDEPENDENT  THOUGHT

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By Stephen Janis
 


It is a ritual that extends as far back as the Frankfurt School and Walter Benjamin’s seminal essay, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” (1936). A new technology appears to transform the way we live, think, and make a living in a mostly productive capacity.

That is, until a critic, in this case Benjamin, looks under the hood and generates a critique that calls into question all the casual assumptions that drive our understanding of it.

Which is where Astra Taylor enters with her new book, The People’s Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age.

READ STEPHEN JANIS'S INSIGHTFUL REVIEW OF ASTRA TAYLOR'S THOUGHT-PROVOKING NEW BOOK, AT VOICE OF BALTIMORE — http://voiceofbaltimore.org/archives/14366