The Aura and Truth in the Era of Digital Manipulation
The Aura and Truth in the Era of Digital Manipulation

Summary/Abstract: In the “information era”, as the age of general media spectacularizaton and digitalization, Benjamin’s aura, as the quality of originality and unrepeatability of magical objects of nature as well as of art in the era of its mechanical reproducibility, gains completely different functions. It is influenced by the radical change of the epistemological framework of explaining and understanding the world, as well as its reflections on the sphere of social relations and art. It could be assumed that aura does not fully vanish from reality, as a previously important mark of art, but that it has been transferred to different fields of action. This new ontology, not only of art but also of the world of culture and nature, does not preserve the relation with truth as a basic value of artistic, cultural, social and natural appearances. The aura has been importantly transformed as the lack of originality has determined the situation in which each digital copy stimulates the missing original, and, along with that, presents the possibility of “auratic” difference in relation to some other copy.

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