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the generation that had gone to school in horse-drawn streetcars Knife stood in the open air amid a landscape in which nothing was the same except the clouds and at its center exposed to a force field of destructive torrents and explosions the tiny fragile human body to Walter Benjamin the German art critic and philosopher this summarized the problems the questions of modernity modernity was about mass mass democracy mass media mass culture mass commodification must transport mass warfare accounting for and interpreting that massive change was for Benjamin the essential task of that moment of those precarious interwar years for much of his life he tried to make sense of this monumental change in 1921 the first auto barn opened in 1927 Charles Lindbergh made the first air crossing of the Atlantic in the same year Benjamin flew for the first time himself radio telephone cinema were suddenly everywhere he was fascinated by how human experience was sculpted by these historic changes as a