Introduction -- Chapter 1. Visions of Modernity -- Chapter 2. The Disappearance of the World -- Chapter 3. Technics of Vision -- Chapter 4. Urban Optics.
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Visual technology now 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 condition as the beginning of a dystopian future, of cultural decline, social disempowerment and political passivity. This book presents a wide-ranging critical reassessment of contemporary visual culture through an analysis of pivotal technological innovation from the telescope, through photography to film. A range of theorists - from Baudelaire to Merleau-Ponty, Debord, Benjamin, Virilio, Jameso.
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Architecture of the visible.
Architecture of the visible : technology and urban visual culture
Philosophy, Modern.
Technology-- Philosophy.
Vision.
Beeldcultuur.
Philosophy, Modern.
POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Policy-- Cultural Policy.