Throughout there are references to popular culture and mechanical reproduction.

In the age of mechanical reproduction, repetition is harder than you think.

The blueprint process was first used for mechanical reproduction of drawings.

Many artists argued that photography was the mechanical reproduction of an image.

And the most effective way to transmit the data is in the user-friendly language of mechanical reproduction.

Photography and mechanical reproduction, both of which interested him greatly, made this compression possible.

For a detailed article on mechanical reproduction as it relates to the industrial age see mass production.

In other words, the works play it both ways, confirming the age of mechanical reproduction while squeezing past its restrictions.

The grand obsession of the era was mechanical reproduction.

IN the age of mechanical reproduction, the hatred that dare not speak its name may well be photophobia.