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1936 essays

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The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

1935 essay by Walter Benjamin; proposes that mechanical reproduction devalues the aura of an artwork, that—in the age of mechanical reproduction and traditional ritualistic value’s absence—art production would be inherently based on political praxis

Muddle Instead of Music

soviet editorial in Pravda

Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics

1936 lecture by J. R. R. Tolkien

Shooting an Elephant

essay by George Orwell

A Conscience Against Violence

essay by Stefan Zweig

The Hyborian Age

essay by Robert E. Howard

The Transcendence of the Ego

1936 essay by Jean-Paul Sartre