Suspensions of Perception: Attention, Spectacle, and Modern Culture

by Jonathan Crary

Book Overview

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