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

2.0

Heavily reliant on continental philosophy, almost to the point where it reads as pseudo-science. Maybe this book has a decent argument somewhere (beyond "our modern understandings of 'perception' or 'attention' have their roots in the new visual experiences of the late nineteenth century"--which makes sense in itself, but I can't evaluate the argument), but it's impenetrable to me. I'll have to pick it up again later.