Suspensions of Perception Attention, Spectacle, and Modern Culture

Name: Suspensions of Perception Attention, Spectacle, and Modern Culture
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ISBN: 9780262531993

ISBN-10: 0262531992

ISBN-13: 9780262531993

Edition: 2001 (Reprint)

Authors: Jonathan Crary, George Baker, Yve-Alain Bois, Benjamin Buchloh, Leah Dickerman

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Suspensions of Perception is a major historical study of human attention and its volatile role in modern Western culture. It argues that the ways in which we intently look at or listen to anything result from crucial changes in the nature of perception that can be traced back to the second half of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the period from about 1880 to 1905, Jonathan Crary examines the connections between the modernization of subjectivity and the dramatic expansion and industrialization of visual/auditory culture. At the core of his project is the paradoxical nature of modern attention, which was both a fundamental condition of individual freedom, creativity, and experience and a…

Book details

List price: $60.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 8/24/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 410
Size: 7.05" wide x 9.02" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 1.892
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Modernity and the Problem of Attention



1879: Unbinding Vision



1888: Illuminations of Disenchantment



1900: Reinventing Synthesis


Epilogue 1907: Spellbound in Rome


Bibliography


Illustration Credits


Index