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When, in 1935, Walter Benjamin undertook his critique of "the work of art in the age of technological reproducibility," this age was in its infancy. He saw in mechanical reproduction a set of ...
In his play, described as a "Hitchcock psychosexual thriller" by director Jonathan Beller, a quintessential teenage loner finds his life spiraling out of control when his adolescent angst provokes his ...
The same fascistic tendencies Walter Benjamin saw in the rise of mass media are at play in the NFT "revolution," too, culture critic Jonathan Beller writes.
Attention is at the center of the social media business model because it's worth money: Media theorist Jonathan Beller has observed that "human attention is productive of value." The single most ...
ASU graduate students Jonathan Beller and Patrick Demers started the first PHX:fringe festival, which was funded by a grant from p.a.v.e., the arts entrepreneurship program of the ASU School of ...