# Returning to Benjamin: Art in the Age of AI

- **Brand:** MACK
- **Price:** $9.99
- **Catalog:** mackbooks
- **Retailer:** mackbooks
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- **Availability:** In stock

## Summary

Returning to Benjamin: Art in the Age of AI by Victor Burgin, a paperback art theory book featuring a red cover with white typography and a monochrome image.

## Description

Ebook available via this listing, on Apple Books and Kindle Store. Walter Benjamin’s essay of cultural criticism ‘The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction’ has become a ‘classic’ text, one which resonated through the twentieth century and beyond. In it, Benjamin suggested the mediums of photography and film had dissolved the auratic quality of art. Today, digital technology has dissolved the very category of ‘medium’ itself.   In this pair of succinct and pointed essays, the artist and writer Victor Burgin rereads Benjamin’s 1935 text twice: first to consider the relation of art to digital reproduction, and second to reflect on the further implications of artificial intelligence. Completed by a conversation with media theorist Katrina Sluis, these texts offer a compelling engagement with the image today, arguing that the camera is now profoundly imbricated in that which is not visible.   DISCOURSE is a series of small books in which a theorist, artist, or writer engages in a dialogue with a theme, an artwork, an idea, or another individual across an extended text. Explore the full series here.

## Appearance

- **Fit:** Paperback

## Variants

- **In stock:** 1 of 2

| SKU | Availability |
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| 9781917651349 | Out of stock |
| 9781917651349E | In stock |

## Categories

- **Categories:** Art Theory Books

## Additional Attributes

- **ISBN:** 978-1-917651-34-9
- **tags:** transfer, Victor Burgin
- **pages:** 96 pages
- **author:** Victor Burgin
- **format:** Paperback with flap
- **vendor:** MACK
- **binding:** Paperback with flap
- **publisher:** MACK
- **dimensions:** 12.5 x 19.5 cm
- **page count:** 96 pages
- **product type:** Art Theory Books
- **listed prices:** €17 £15 US$20 AU$35
- **shopify handle:** returning-to-benjamin-art-in-the-age-of-ai-victor-burgin
- **publication date:** October 2025
- **dimensions and pages:** 12.5 x 19.5 cm, 96 pages

## Enrichment

- **Type:** book
- **Type Synonyms:** paperback, art theory book
- **Tags:** paperback with flap, text-based cover, monochrome imagery
- **Styles:** academic, minimalist
- **Category Path:** Media > Books > E-Books
- **Genre:** Arts, Philosophy, Society & culture, Technology
- **Language version:** ENG- English
- **Target audience:** Adults
- **Canonical Brand:** MACK

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