mechanical reproduction
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmechanicalandreproduction
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mechanical
adjective
uk/məˈkæn.ɪ.kəl/us/məˈkæn.ɪ.kəl/
operated by a machine, or connected with machines or ...
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reproduction
noun
uk/ˌriː.prəˈdʌk.ʃən/us/ˌriː.prəˈdʌk.ʃən/
the process of having babies, producing young, or producing ...
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The age ofmechanicalreproductionlooks very different today.
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But the primary requisite was a voice that would be equaled by itsmechanicalreproduction.
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In this context the notion of a performance acquires overtones ofmechanicalreproduction, strain, even sweat.
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The first effect which all the media ofmechanicalreproductionhave upon musical culture is that of a multiplier.
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Mechanicalreproductionmay unveil hidden aspects of the original and take the copy to formerly inaccessible places.
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Furthermore, recorded sounds can be endlessly repeated without fluctuations in their signal, which is physically impossible outside ofmechanicalreproduction.
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Art with its aura had entered the age ofmechanicalreproduction, and would never be bound to the museum again.
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The enthusiastic accumulation by fans of an unending suite of related images both echoes and subverts the massmechanicalreproductionof the modern celebrity image.
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He yearns for this high art regime to be destabilized, and sees the influence ofmechanicalreproductionas a groundbreaking intervention.
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The loss of aura thatmechanicalreproductioncan effect is for him something to be celebrated, not lamented or compensated for.
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This common denominator is the "automaton ontology," the belief that each is a "mechanicalreproductionof an apparently nonmechanical being" (16).
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The senses of vision and hearing should therefore remain divided, to prevent the dissonance ofmechanicalreproductionfrom disrupting the social harmony of good music.
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In an age of mass-produced textiles andmechanicalreproduction, new, superficial identities could be recorded and exchanged as easily as garments.
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She devotes her attention to how the technical resources and potential effects ofmechanicalreproduction are realized and individualized in particular works.
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This prominent display ofmechanicalreproductionreinforced the architecture's emphasis on technological progress as consistent with, rather than divergent from, the classical tradition.
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For him these shellac records constituted musical reality, containing as they did the precious last remnants of a world that was no longer accessible except throughmechanicalreproduction.
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The work of art in the age ofmechanicalreproductionthus became the work of art designed for reproducibility - for multiplication into the greatest possible number of copies.
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For a brief textual moment machine talks to machine in the absence of active human agency, asmechanicalreproductionappears to be threatening to produce surrogate humans.
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Though apprentices and counterfeiters have always copied the masters,mechanicalreproductionis a relatively new phenomenon which has developed in successive booms interspersed with ever briefer rests.
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These uses includemechanicalreproduction, public performance, synchronization and many other forms of musical distribution.
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The blueprint process was first used formechanicalreproductionof drawings.
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Many artists argued that photography was themechanicalreproductionof an image.
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