Comment by ForHackernews

There's already a book about this: The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (1935)[0]

> The conditions for an analogous insight are more favorable in the present. And if changes in the medium of contemporary perception can be comprehended as decay of the aura, it is possible to show its social causes.

[0] https://web.mit.edu/allanmc/www/benjamin.pdf