{"product_id":"techniques-of-the-observer-9780262531078","title":"Techniques of the Observer","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJonathan Crary's \u003ci\u003eTechniques of the Observer\u003c\/i\u003e provides a dramatically new perspective on the visual culture of the nineteenth century, reassessing problems of both visual modernism and social modernity. This analysis of the historical formation of the observer is a compelling account of the prehistory of the society of the spectacle.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eTechniques of the Observer\u003c\/i\u003e Jonathan Crary provides a dramatically new perspective on the visual culture of the nineteenth century, reassessing problems of both visual modernism and social modernity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInverting conventional approaches, Crary considers the problem of visuality not through the study of art works and images, but by analyzing the historical construction of the observer. He insists that the problems of vision are inseparable from the operation of social power and examines how, beginning in the 1820s, the observer became the site of new discourses and practices that situated vision within the body as a physiological e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52195165962583,"sku":"9780262531078","price":36.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/techniques-of-the-observer-9780262531078","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}