Suspensions of Perception: Attention, Spectacle, and Modern Culture

by Jonathan Crary

Book Overview

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 form crucial changes in the nature of perception that can be traced back to the second half of the 19th century.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262032651
• ISBN13: 9780262032650
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 397 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.3" x 9.3"