Glossary
Borrowed from Walter Benjamin, aura names the artwork's accumulated personality or energy produced through centuries of audience participation.
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aura
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...Walter Benjamin, would have a phrase for it, he calls it aura. Okay? And his argument is this, okay, it's a very strange argument,..."
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Glossary
A cultural-theory term Jiang uses for the unique soul of each oral telling.
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Jiang briefly invokes Walter Benjamin's term aura to name the living energy or personality an artwork acquires through long audience participation and then reflects back into the viewer.
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Jiang treats the Mona Lisa's tracking gaze as evidence of artistic aura: wherever the viewer stands, the painting keeps projecting a persistent presence that cannot simply be left behind.
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American bases in the Middle East are modeled less as defensive systems than as tools for imposing an aura of American authority over imposed monarchies.
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The Mongols wanted the reputation of being inhuman demons because it produced an aura of inevitability and invincibility that made opponents surrender.
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"...Walter Benjamin, would have a phrase for it, he calls it aura. Okay? And his argument is this, okay, it's a very strange argument,..."
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"Probably talking about the fact that wherever you are in the room she looks at you."
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"It's really weird. Do you guys like experience it? Yeah. When you walk around her eyes follow you. They track you. It's really weird...."
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"...feel it because like wherever you are in the room the aura is here. And you can just like turn your back and then..."
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"Another big question that we have is, who gets involved? Because this situation is so dire that Europe, okay, specifically Germany, France, and Britain..."
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"So, they were actually And so, they provide defense. But then you're like, wait a minute here. I mean, didn't we just say that..."
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"Empire is the, it's an aura of invincibility and inviability. Okay? If you fear it, then you obey it. But, it's not really designed..."
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"...which is the most important, is they had to create an aura of inevitability and invincibility. At this time, people were literally telling people..."
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"...to conquer so much territory so fast because they had this aura of inevitability and invincibility. And most people just gave up. They just..."
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"...is unique. Now there's a concept in cultural theory called the aura. Okay? The essence. The soul. And each story has its own soul..."
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"...of money and resources in order to create this image, this aura of invincibility and inviability. So if the Iranians are able to capture..."
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