Aura and auratization

Mood, atmosphere, event or authenticity - terms like these, which were still considered hardly suitable for theory at the end of the 20th century, are now enjoying renewed popularity in the humanities and cultural studies discourse. The concept of aura has benefited little from this boom. Although it can be suspected in the background of these concepts, although Walter Benjamin introduced it in a prominent place in his essay The Work of Art in the Age of its Technical Reproducibility from the late 1930s, which is fundamental to the more recent discussion of aesthetics, it does not play a significant role in current media theory. The contributions of the present volume - from literature, history, art, music and film studies - take a different path. On the basis of a critical re-reading of the text by Walter B.