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Suspensions of Perception: Attention, Spectacle, and Modern Culture (October Books)
Suspensions of Perception Attention Spectacle and Modern Culture - October Books
Author: Jonathan Crary
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 result from crucial changes in the nature of perception that can be traced back to the second half of the nineteenth century. — Focusing on the ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780262531993
ISBN-10: 0262531992
Publication Date: 10/1/2001
Pages: 416
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Publisher: The MIT Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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