A Better Tomorrow
Benjamen Walker's Theory of Everything
Benjamen Walker & Radiotopia
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🗓️ 18 May 2014
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
This week we examine the legacy of The Work of Art in the Age of Technological Reproducibility by Walter Benjamin. Media Theorist and Benjamin scholar (and translator) Thomas Levin explains why this essay resonates today and what Benjamin has to tell us about the utopian power of new media. Also Russell Meyer tells us about the Wu-Tang clan’s plan to release a sole copy of their new album and why he has turned to Kickstarter so he can buy it and release it to the world. And your host shares an imaginary story about Hitler and Goebbels encountering Benjamin’s essay during their final days in the bunker.
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| 1:27.0 | You are listening to Benjamin Walker's Theory of Everything. |
| 1:31.0 | This installment is called A Better Tomorrow. |
| 1:35.0 | They are going to let people hear it, but it's going to be like at a museum concert |
| 1:45.8 | series where they'll pat you down and check you for recording devices and then it |
| 1:50.7 | costs 30 to 50 dollars and then you get to hear it. |
| 1:53.7 | It's not like an exciting or organic way to listen to the music. |
| 1:58.1 | Russell Meyer is a big hip-hop fan, |
| 2:00.8 | so when he learned that the Wuteng Clan will be releasing just one copy of their new album, |
| 2:06.0 | once upon a time in Shaolin, he got kind of fired up. |
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