Visions of modernity : representation, memory, time and space in the age of the camera /
Scott McQuire.
- 279 pages ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction The Origin of the Image: The Image of the Origin -- 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 -- 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 -- 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. Part One. Part Two. Part Three.
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Perception. Cameras--History Photographs--Social aspects Civilization, Modern--20th century Civilization, Western--20th century Culture. Modernism (Aesthetics)