Tag Archives: Jonathan Crary

Today’s Intellectual High – Zone Books – Interdisciplinary Studies of The Human Body and Its Place within Culture

Posted on April 18, 2012 by

* CLICK TO BROWSE TITLES * Suspensions of Perception: Attention, Spectacle, and Modern Culture 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 … Continue reading →

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Revery and Attention – “Every moment we expect the spell to break . . .”

Posted on December 17, 2011 by

“Voici des fruits, des fleurs, de feuilles, et des branches . . . “ Claude Debussy–Ariettes Oubliees (lyrics by Paul Verlaine) “C’est L’Exstace” “Green” “Spleen” Gabriel Faure–Melodies “Apres un Reve” “Nell” “This curious state of inhibition can at least for … Continue reading →

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Unsaidquarters – Inversions of Perception

Posted on December 11, 2011 by

If discourse on visuality in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries repressed and concealed whatever threatened the transparence of the optical system, Goethe signals a reversal, and instead poses the opacity of the observer as a necessary condition for the appearance … Continue reading →

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The Softness of Art vs. The Hardness of Science – Pffft!

Posted on November 9, 2011 by

STUDENT: I don’t see what’s wrong with interpreting nature to what you see. Some parts in the article are redonkulus like speculating if Giotto really meant for the cloud to have a ‘devil’ in it or not, but I think … Continue reading →

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