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The Benedict Cumberbatch question: 'tis nobler in the mind or on the camera? by Jonathan Jones

Alas, poor Sherlock. He, like Walter Benjamin before him, has got it wrong about revolutionary technology and works of art Benedict Cumberbatch raised a fascinating, even philosophical, question when he begged fans not to corrupt a night out at the theatre by filming his performance of Hamlet. Standing at the stage door he mused on the destruction of memory and experience in the digital age, pleading with people not …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:37AM on August 14, 2015

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