Tag Archives: Jonathan Crary

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

Posted on August 11, 2012 by Brian Kubarycz

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

Posted on April 18, 2012 by Brian Kubarycz

* 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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Unsaidquarters – Inversions of Perception

Posted on December 11, 2011 by Brian Kubarycz

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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