The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility [First Version]

摘要

When Marx undertook his analysis of the capitalist mode of production, that mode was in its infancy. Marx adopted an approach that gave his investigations prognostic value. Going back to the basic conditions of capitalist production, he presented them in a way that showed what could be expected of capitalism in the future. What could be expected, it emerged, was not only an increasingly harsh exploitation of the proletariat but, ultimately, the creation of conditions which would make it possible for capitalism to abolish itself.