# [[Bejamin’s Aesthetic]] [[Walter Benjamin|Benjamin]] considers the [[aesthetics|aesthetic]] in relation to the exchanging conditions of human experience ([[Erfahrung]]) Pertains - the organisation of sensory perception - crucially to – individual and collective, conscious and unconscious–Memory, imagination, and generational transmissibility. [[Miriam Hansen]] claims his critique is linked to the Western [[aesthetic]] tradition that the theory of perception (Greeks called) [[aesthetics]]. - institution of art perpetuating notions of beautiful semblance - timeless truth - mystery - creative genius ## Note ## Related Notes [[@hansen_cinema_2012|Miriam Hansen (2012) Cinema and Experience: Siegfried Kracauer]] ## References [[@benjamin_selected_1996-1]], p. 120