Visions of modernity : representation, memory, time and space in the age of the camera / Scott McQuire.
Material type: TextPublisher: London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE Publications, 1998Description: 279 pages ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0761953000
- 9780761953005
- 0761953019
- 9780761953012
- 306.47
- TR183 .M8 1998
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction The Origin of the Image: The Image of the Origin -- Part One. The Ruins of Representation -- Photomimesis -- The Geometric Universe -- Writing with Light -- The Mechanical Eye of Reason -- Promiscuous Meanings -- The Mobile Frame -- Flickering in Eclipses -- The Ends of Representation -- Part Two. Photomnemonics -- The Eye of the Camera Faces Backwards -- The Law of Progress -- The Crisis of Memory -- Amnesic Cultures -- Eternity's Hostage The Camera and the Archive -- Intolerable Memories -- Biodegradable Histories -- Part Three. The New Plasticity of Space and Time -- Pure Speed From Transport to Teleport -- Reconstructing 'the World'The Myth of the Centre -- In the Neon Forest -- Interzones -- Unstable Architectures -- Telepresence and the Government of Time.
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