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On Walter Benjamin and Digital Collectibles

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Feb 24, 2021
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Digital art and collectibles are hot right now—not because they are digital per se, but because blockchain technology allows one to prove, beyond doubt, that the asset in question is a singular “original.” Here’s an article in the New York Times on NFTs (non-fungible tokens).

In his essay on the Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, Walter B…

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