Walter Benjamin'de Tipler, İmge ve Deneyim
Types, Image and Experience in Walter Benjamin's Works

Summary/Abstract: Modernity means being imperiled of the experience. This imperilment is the metamorphosis of the competences of knowing, doing and tasting which feeds the authentic ego. This metamorphosis may be understood through a series of symptoms, such as not remaining of social unity, growing of the distance between nature and the individual, the instrumentalisation of the experience and so on. Walter Benjamin is one of the people who set up this perspective in a strong way and thought about the results of the modernity and how they should be overcome. By mentioning this thought, his study tries to think about Benjamin’s suggestions in this day and age. Being on the track of Benjamin’s life the study examines the relevant figures (i.e., child, collector, storyteller, flaneur, the author as a producer) of his ideas and refers to photography and cinema experience in following sections. The main problem is that the human is living a dream that his own existence is imperiled. On the other hand, images retain the power to transform this dream by using alienating techniques. Benjamin advocated this idea, and in his recent works, he talked about the transformation of artwork with technology. Benjamin's positive view on the enlargement and possibilities that the image has opened up to the experience continues to be relevant in some of the artistic strategies today. However, to my knowledge, the artistic strategies are lack of the transformative power that Benjamin desires. To contribute to the literature, in the present study, the underlying reason for this is in claimed to be the 'loss of childhood,' the withdrawal of childhood from experience. After the end of ideologies, the cultures continue to regulate childhood, turning the experience in to information shows that we are far from the Benjamian revolutionary thought.

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