Presents a critical reassessment of contemporary visual culture through an analysis of pivotal technological innovation from the telescope, through photography to film. Drawing on the examples of Paris and New York, this book analyses how visual technology is revolutionising the landscape of modern thought, politics and culture.

Product Description: Visual technology saturates everyday life. Theories of the visual—now key to debates across cultural studies, social theory, art history, literary studies and philosophy—have interpreted this new condition as the beginning of a dystopian future, of cultural decline, social disempowerment and political passivity...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)