Suspensions of Perception: Attention, Spectacle, and Modern Culture

(Part of the October Books Series)

by Jonathan Crary

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Suspensions of Perception decisively relocates the problem of aesthetic contemplation within a broader collective encounter with the unstable nature of perception--in psychology, philosophy, neurology, early cinema, and photography.

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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0262531992

ISBN13:9780262531993

Release Date:October 2001

Publisher:MIT Press

Length:410 Pages

Weight:1.72 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 6.9" x 9.0"

Age Range:18 years and up

Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher

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