那裊裊吹拂的靈光，原指精神的存在，是一種樸素自然的美感。班雅明以之為應證現代性技術社會劇變撞擊的感官體驗，由撞擊而思想凝結為單子、而視覺浮現的恍惚光暈，提出了靈光美學。靈光不只是精神存在，並且和視覺表達、感官體驗相聯繫，具體體現社會圖像。在現代都市經驗撞擊下，那恍惚浮現的靈光嘎然消逝，速度改變了眼睛凝視沈思的美感經驗，班雅明叫喚那消逝中的靈光，喚回現代主義以前樸素自然的審美經驗，說明感受模式的改變是社會更迭的一種表現，指出當代社會的變化。這也就是靈光的美學意義，是一種視覺和感官的辯證，對現代性文明影像進行反思，而展開美感經驗的重建與文化批判的視野。於消逝的靈光中，站在當下的世俗社會透視過去消逝歷史，重新點燃希望的火花，於當下打開世俗的啟明，尋繹未來的啟蒙。表達了消逝所蘊含的更新，從歷史終結迎向另一個「新」的現代性年代。
靈光、震驚、視覺與感官、前衛
The upwards-curling and soft-blowing Aura, referring to a spiritual existence, was considered as a plain and natural beauty. Bejamin proposed Aura Aesthetics by referring to Aura as first-hand experience of the sense organ, which verifies the impact of upheavals in the modern technological society. Due to this impact, thoughts coagulate into monads, and a faint shimmer appears before the eyes. Aura not only represented a spiritual existence, but it also linked to visual expression and sensation, thus realizes social image.
Impact by modern city experience, the shimmering Aura is suddenly and quietly disappearing, and the haste of its disappearance has changed the aesthetic experience of our gazing and meditation. Benjamin tries to beckon the vanishing Aura in order to recover the plain and natural aesthetic experience that has preceded modernism. He explains the change in mode of sensation as an expression of social alteration, indicating the changes in contemporary society. This is the core aesthetic meaning of Aura - a kind of dialectic between sight and sensation, a reflection about modern civilization image; reconstructing aesthetic experience and broadening view of cultural criticism. In the vanishing aura, one tries to gain a perspective of the vanishing history of the past from the standpoint of the current secular society, rekindle the sparks of hope, enlighten the current secular society and seeking future enlightenment; expressing renewal of what was in the vanishing, and moving toward another 'new' modern age from the final stage of history.
aura, shock, sight and sensation, avant-garde
