Las técnicas del observador

• Collection: Ad Litteram
  
• Author: Jonathan Crary
  
• Year: 2007
  
• Format: 15 × 23 × 1,7 cm; 223 p.
  
• Binding: TAPA BLANDA
  
• ISBN: 978-84-96898-19-6
  
• Price: 20 € (TAX incl.)
  
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Jonathan Crary provides a dramatically new perspective on the visual culture of the nineteenth century, reassessing problems of both visual modernism and social modernity. In this book, he analyses the historical construction of the observer. Crary 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 that situated vision within the body as a physiological event. Crary examines a range of diverse work in philosophy, in the empirical sciences, and in the elements of an emerging mass visual culture. He also discusses at length the significance of optical apparatuses such as the stereoscope and of precinematic devices.