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...
In Techniques of the Observer Jonathan Crary provides a dramatically new perspective on the visual culture of the nineteenth century, reasse...
Scorched Earth Tales aims a relentless spotlight on the disastrous terminal stage of global capitalism. Jonathan Crary, author of 24/7, surveys not only intensifying economic immiseration, state violence, and environmental unraveling, but, equally important, the wrecking of long-standing forms of shared experience and social cohesion. The few remaining spaces of interdependence and mutual support are increasingly threatened by financialization, privatization and absorption into digital platforms. Compounding this is the massive growth of technologies such as eye tracking, iris scanning, and...
Scorched Earth Tales aims a relentless spotlight on the disastrous terminal stage of global capitalism. Jonathan Crary, author of 24/7, surveys not o...