Walter Benjamin’s most famous essay explores the transformation of artistic perception as technological innovations encroach upon the creative process; it analyzes how new media altered the understanding of the uniqueness and authenticity of the work of art as it became an object of mass consumption. Sergei Romashko—responsible for the classic translation of *The Work of Art*—has written a detailed article specifically for this edition, accompanied by a selection of Benjamin’s texts that illustrate the author’s intellectual journey toward this work. Some of these texts appear in Russian for the first time ("Medium...", "The Newspaper," "Reflections on Radio," "Response to Oskar Schmitz’s Article," "On Mickey Mouse").