Visualising the Empire of Capital

ISBN-13: 9780367784348 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 166 str.

Martyn Hudson

Opis

Through studies of visualisation in relation to machines and the monstrous, memory, mirrors and optics, and the invisible, this book offers a new reading of - and against - Marx, together with a new way of thinking about both vision, and the nature and future of capital.

Spis treści

Introduction: Sight, Lucidity and the Empire of Capital 1. Camera Obscura: Optics of Modernity  2. Visuality in Capital 3. Machines, Monsters and Capital 4. The Crystal Palace 5. The Burning Library: Memory and Seeing Machines 6. Reading the Invisible in Capital 7. The Dark Forest: Trees, Space and Time 8. Senses and Counter-Capital

O autorze

Martyn Hudson is Lecturer in Art and Design History at Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK. He is the author of Critical Theory and the Classical World, The Slave Ship, Memory and the Origins of Modernity, Species and Machines and Ghosts, Landscapes and Social Memory.