ABSTRACT
Remembering Walter Benjamin means remembering the story of Walter Benjamin's death. Walter Benjamin was doubtlessly one of the world's earlier technology theorists, fascinated with photography and its history. These are technologies of imagery which Walter Benjamin told us change the representation of reality. Benjamin is laying out the basis for a theory of technoculture, one which is still largely to be developed. Perhaps Walter Benjamin sought to keep memory and meaning and tradition alive because they are the key cultural energies that animate us as living embodied souls. Memory makes us human. Benjamin himself was a talented historical garbologist and tireless recycler of other's texts. An Archetypal Intelligence that manifests Walter Benjamin's voice and concerns. The instrumentation and the voice changes, but the aura of Walter Benjamin tells us, his image in our mind, his voice in our head, the song remains the same.
