Medienästhetische Schriften

Walter Benjamin recognised early on that technical media change artistic modes of representation and everyday forms of experience. Since the 1920s, he wrote numerous texts on the connection between media development, art production and changes in perception, which have established media aesthetics as a separate field of aesthetics and art studies. Since their rediscovery, the works written between 1925 and 1940 have exerted a lasting influence on debates around art and media theory. They are presented here for the first time in one volume, arranged according to the media in question.