reading #2

Questions Do you agree or disagree with what the article defined as authentic/authenticity? Why or why not? What do you think the author means by " The authenticity of a thing is the essence of all that is transmissable from its beginning ranging from its substantive duration to its testimony to the history which it has experience. Do you agree/disagree with this and why? Do you agree with the authors view of reproduction detaching the reproduced object from the domain of tradition? How are film reproductions/remakes different from his definition of replications?