Walter Benjamin’s The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction discusses the influence and change of technology reproduction on artworks, involving photography, film and politics. The reproducibility of the technology begins when photographs create duplications. Because of the reproducibility of photographs, it is difficult to think of original photographs as similar to original paintings drawn by artists. Here Benjamin introduced a concept of aura. The aura of photographic artworks roughly means the unique existence in a particular place, which is not affected by the historical imprint of other works. aura is a dependent being, an unmediated form of being. But because the repeatability of technology diminishes the aura of art, and the diminishment of aura makes art more accessible, it’s not the same when you’re standing in front of the real thing as when you’re hanging a replica in your home as a decoration. But the demise of the aura is not a bad thing, it’s also the reproducibility of the technology.

        The political direction of the content is difficult for me to understand, but the so-called art of war got me thinking. I quite agree that all efforts to glorify politics culminate in one thing: war. War involves a great deal of human, material, financial and technological power, which can be used as the goal of the largest mass movement. War creates a kind of anti-human aesthetic art. After all, war is something we rarely see in peacetime, and it peaks with intense pain and sadness. But the truth is that this kind of art is hard for the public to appreciate, including me.