Merger of art and technology (Y1,1, pt. 2)

The passage outlines that, very much contrary to what might be thought of as the "murder," the violent overthrow of painting by photography, of humanity by the machine, of traditional values by industrial labor, it is when the photograph comes to its fullest realization that the "genius of art" returns, takes possession but also insists that from thenceforward technology and art work together. We recall the "genius of industry" mentioned in the source to the second epigraph, and here it's clear that there is little to no distinction between the "genius of art" and the "genius of industry." Thus the prophecy Benjamin refers to at the start of the passage is that art will be subsumed by technology but that art will then return, in a kind of Hegelian synthesis, to become an almost unified entity with technology.