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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...

In Techniques of the Observer Jonathan Crary provides a dramatically new perspective on the visual culture of the nineteenth century, reassessing problems of both visual modernism and social modernity.

Inverting conventional approaches, Crary considers the problem of visuality not through the study of art works and images, but by analyzing the historical construction of the observer. He insists that the problems of vision are inseparable from the operation of social power and examines how, beginning in the 1820s, the observer became the site of new discourses and practices...

Jonathan Crary examines how this interminable non-time blurs any separation between an intensified, ubiquitous consumerism and emerging strategies of control and surveillance. He describes the ongoing management of individual attentiveness...

Virilio himself referred to his 1980 work The Aesthetics of Disappearance as a -juncture- in his thinking, one at which he brought his focus onto the logistics of perception -- a logistics he would soon come to refer to as the -vision machine.- If Speed and Politics established Virilio as the inaugural -- and still consummate -- theorist of -dromology- (the theory of speed and the society it defines), The Aesthetics of Disappearance introduced his understanding of -picnolepsy- -- the epileptic state of consciousness produced by speed, or rather, the consciousness invented by the subject...