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... As brought up in the discussion, following your presentation, In addition to Anna Munster Susan Buck-Morss has written a paper entitled "Aesthetics and Anaesthetics: Walter Benjamin's Artwork Essay Reconsidered". Benjamin is perhaps useful to address the dialectics of the phenomenon as you describe it. I think Susan Buck-Morss' article might be interesting to you, also to draw a historical relation to cinema/aesthetization (of the political), understandings of the crowd (masses), its rythms and ability to relate to reality, the relation between aesthetics narcotics, and so forth.
