The theme from Sturken/Cartwright's Intro to visual culture: chapter 5 I wanted to talk about is the idea of mechanical reproduction and politics. First of all, Walter Benjamin use first-hand evidences to prove that this two elements are connected: He is in Germany in the 30s, where the rise of the nazi party is evident, and he noticed the main weapon the party is using: propaganda. They use an image, reproduced hundreds of times to promote their ideas. Propaganda has always been used, but the use of images reproduced on a large scale is new and a new element appear: people can see the same image everyday, maybe more than once a day, and the fact of seeing an image repeatedly is in hitself, already an element to raise question in everyone:
