Martin Hähnel

John Berger's Ways Of Seeing

Inspired by recent discussions in the OMG.LOL discord Chat Network. I have spent a considerable amount of time in reading Benjamin's "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" through a Latourian lens.

John Berger does a great job of gently introducing some of Benjamin's ideas that seem so apt in a time where reproduction has become an even more integral part of late modernity. Here's the first episode of the four episode BBC series from the 1970ies called "Ways Of Seeing":

Content Warning

There is a depiction of an execution around minute 20.