Memoria e cadavere, ripetizione e allegoria. L’arte alla fine del moderno

In his essay Di alcuni motivi in Walter Benjamin. L’opera d'arte nell'epoca della sua riproducibilità tecnica, Franco Rella attempts to interpret Benjamin’s text and unravel the tension between regression and progress in an art that is liberated at the price of losing its aura. Rella reads Benjamin's text through the device of allegory, connecting it with the concept of memory.