172 Pages
by
Routledge
172 Pages
by
Routledge
172 Pages
by
Routledge
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Methods of visualising modernity and capitalism have been central to classical social science. Those methods of seeing, specifically in the work of Marx, were attempts to capture visually the fragmenting edifice of capital in its death throes and were part of a project to hasten its demise - yet capitalism persisted and perpetuated itself in new forms, such that its demise now looks less likely... Read more
Introduction: Sight, Lucidity and the Empire of Capital 1. Camera Obscura: Optics of Modernity 2. Visuality in Capital 3. Machines, Monsters and Capital 4. The Crystal Palace 5. The Burning Library: Memory and Seeing Machines 6. Reading the Invisible in Capital 7. The Dark Forest: Trees, Space and Time 8. Senses and Counter-Capital
Biography
Martyn Hudson is Lecturer in Art and Design History at Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK. He is the author of Critical Theory and the Classical World, The Slave Ship, Memory and the Origins of Modernity, Species and Machines and Ghosts, Landscapes and Social Memory.
