Digital aura reading list

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 Seeing ⭐ by John Berger What Art Is by Arthur C. Danto What We See When We Read by Peter Mendelsund The Arts and Crafts Movement by Gillian Naylor Identity and culture The Ethics of Authenticity ⭐ by Charles Taylor Creating Identity by Jayashree Kamblé Leisure: The Basis of Culture ⭐ by Josef Pieper The Sum of Small Things by Elizabeth Currid-Halkett Cute, Quaint, Hungry and Romantic by Daniel Harris Self Made ⭐ by Tara Isabella Burton Pretentiousness by Dan Fox Status and Culture ⭐ by David W. Marx Technology and modernity The Dialectics of Art ⭐ by John Molyneux Technopoly ⭐ by Neil Postman The Digital Sublime by Vincent Mosco The Gutenberg Parenthesis by Jeff Jarvis The Siren’s Call…