The decision to build a loam structure by Martin Rauch was doubtless the correct one in view of the auratic harmony between form and material. |
What might once have attracted us for its auratic, contemplative value now disappoints the expectations of the generation growing up with the digital media. |
The auratic Christ and the wonderstruck disciples turned farcical. |
It is a surface devoid of all specular function, a hollowing-out which is not endowed with any auratic function. |
However, in his later essay on photography, Benjamin seems to reverse himself and further develop his notion of the auratic, even disavowing to some extent the earlier formulation. |
Neither his fake narrative nor Eileen's perverse echoes of it are memories, stories, affording the reciprocity of an auratic relation. |