Citability

Am doing some work on ‘transmissibility’ vs. ‘citation’ in Walter Benjamin, as in:

“Insofar as the past has been transmitted as tradition, it possesses authority”

“The transmissibility of the past had been replaced by its citability”

I’m interested in any thoughts (or citations) on this citability.
For WB, Citation breaks up the integrity of tradition and makes it say new things, meanwhile using the vestigial authority that clings to the cited fragments.

To cite involves the paradox of choosing the very authority on which you rely. The conjuring trick of modernism. (postmodern citation, by contrast, is blank - the vestige of authority now wiped.)

That which is transmitted, by contrast, is merely received, taken over – you must accommodate to it, rather than vice versa.

The intuition, too, that something precious in tradition could only be released posthumously and with the impact of a new and foreign context.