Walter Benjamin's Concept of Technique

1. [An attempt of a short definition of technique in Walter Benjamin] Benjamin's concept of technique describes a practical relation to the world, implying special ontological, historical, political and aesthetic dimensions, across which Benjamin differentiates between a “first” (at first sight “traditional”) and a “second” technique (at first sight “modern”), for which the measure is instrumental and non-instrumental use. Ontologically, technique entails the constitution of the being of the ..