Techniques of the Observer: On Vision and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century
A Photography, History, Art History book. How is the body, including the observing body, becoming a component of new machines,...
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...
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How is the body, including the observing body, becoming a component of new machines, economies, apparatuses, whether social, libidinal, or technological? In what way is subjectivity becoming a precarious condition of interface between rationalized systems of exchange and networks of information? Jonathan Crary, Techniques of the Observer: On Vision and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century //
While sometimes it gets bogged down in post modern name dropping, this text has a lot of valuable things to say about subjective vision. Chapter 3 was particularly rewarding. A convincing and cogent analysis and I'm NOT just saying that because Crary quotes a lot of theorists that I like...Of particular interest is the titular chapter that looks at devices for optical entertainment as they relate to theories of the time (in particular subjective vision). Bought in 1996 for an undergraduate class; I am still attempting to get through it.
