“His (Benjamin's) dialectical image, like the stereoscopic image, is not part of the phenomenal world, but an image that is activated by present readers gazing upon the past. Again, it is not something that is directly perceptible (not reproducible), but only emerges in the imaginative interaction between reader and text.”
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Photography and the Optical Unconscious
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