The Architecture of the Visible: Technology and Urban Visual Culture

Graham Macphee

ISBN 10: 0826459269 / ISBN 13: 9780826459268

Verlag: Continuum Intl Pub Group, 2002

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1st edition. 242 pages. 9.25x6.00x0.75 inches. In Stock. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers x-0826459269

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Titel: The Architecture of the Visible: Technology ...

Verlag: Continuum Intl Pub Group

Erscheinungsdatum: 2002

Einband: Paperback

Zustand: Brand New

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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.

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Graham MacPhee is Lecturer in English Literature in the School of Languages and Area Studies. University of Portsmouth. He has written on Walter Benjamin, modernist poetics and the relationship between modern philosophy and contemporary theory.