1. Isn't it sweet how Paul Valery predicted the internet and the magic of mouse clicks when he wrote "...so we shall be supplied with visual or auditory images, which will appear and disappear at a simple movement of the hand, hardly more than a sign?"

2. And what about that whole switching sides on the "mechanical reproduction" issue? Benjamin spends unlimited time saying that reproductions destroy the AURA, and then straight up writes: "mechanical reproduction emancipates the work of art..." and things of that nature.