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  "tags": [
    "Art and Design",
    "Culture",
    "Meta",
    "Technology",
    "The Internet",
    "aesthetics",
    "AI",
    "art history",
    "aura",
    "authenticity",
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  "textContent": "Some of the most useful books and articles I read to think about digital aura. ⭐ = most useful for the question The ur-text ⭐ The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Walter Benjamin (1936) — my notes Booklist Presented in reverse chronological order. Aura, art, and media studies Ways of […]",
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