Suspensions of Perception: Attention, Spectacle, and Modern Culture by Jonathan Crary

Suspensions of Perception: Attention, Spectacle, and Modern Culture

Jonathan Crary

416 pages first pub 1991 (editions)

nonfiction art philosophy challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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"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 from crucial changes in the nature of per...

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