ISBN:
9781472545855
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (234 Seiten)
Edition:
London Bloomsbury Publishing 2014 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Technologies
Series Statement:
Studies in culture & theory
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als MacPhee, Graham, 1968 - The architecture of the visible
DDC:
306.47
Keywords:
Philosophy, Modern
;
Vision
;
Technology Philosophy
;
Vision
;
Philosophy, Modern
;
Technology Philosophy
;
Stadt
;
Technologie
;
Visuelle Wahrnehmung
Abstract:
Introduction -- 1. Visions of Modernity -- 2. The Disappearance of the World -- 3. Technics of Vision -- 4. Urban Optics -- Afterword: Recognizing Modernity -- Notes -- Bibliography
Abstract:
Visual technology saturates everyday life. Theories of the visual--now key to debates across cultural studies, social theory, art history, literary studies and philosophy--have interpreted this new condition as the beginning of a dystopian future, of cultural decline, social disempowerment and political passivity. Intellectuals--from Baudelaire to Debord, Benjamin, Virilio, Jameson, Baudrillard and Derrida--have explored how technology not only reinvents the visual, but also changes the nature of culture itself. The heartland of all such cultural analysis has been the city, from Baudelaire's flaneur to Benjamin's arcades.The Architecture of the Visible presents a wide-ranging critical reassessment of contemporary approaches to visual culture through an analysis of pivotal technological innovation from the telescope, through photography to film. Drawing on the examples of Paris and New York--two key world cities for over two centuries--Graham MacPhee analyzes how visual technology is revolutionizing the landscape of modern thought, politics and culture
Note:
Originally published: 2001
,
Includes bibliography (p. 227- 230) and index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
DOI:
10.5040/9781472545855
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