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Sergei Tretyakov Revisited: The Cases of Walter Benjamin and Hito Steyerl
Soo Hwan Kim
A kind of chain has thus emerged, stretching from Tretyakov to Benjamin to Steyerl. Perhaps we could say that Steyerl, by combining Tretyakov and Benjamin’s ideas in her own way, has restored not so much Tretyakov himself as the Tretyakov who made such a decisive impact on Benjamin’s famous lecture. Theodor Adorno once noted that when Benjamin wrote “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,” he had wanted to outdo Brecht. If this is true, then perhaps the person who helped him outdo Brecht was Brecht’s Russian friend Sergei Tretyakov.
e-flux Journal
Posted: November 7, 2019
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Avant-Garde, Contemporary Art, Philosophy, Labor & Work, Image
Subjects
Factography, Immaterial Labor
7 Essays
Compiled byLukas Brasiskis
With:
Doreen Mende, Kodwo Eshun, Jennifer Gabrys, Erika Balsom, Nathan K. Hensley, Hito Steyerl, Timotheus Vermeulen
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