Visions of modernity : representation, memory, time and space in the age of the camera

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"Visions of Modernity explores the relationship between technology, society and identity that underpins contemporary 'media culture'. By tracing particular historical shifts as they have intersected with different camera technologies -photography, cinema, television - Scott McQuire engages with broad social and political transformations. Focusing on the camera, McQuire offers a useful point of entry for understanding the processes of modernization and the dramatic changes -perceptual, experiential and epistemological -that characterize modernity."
Contents: / Pt. 1. The Ruins of Representation. 1. Photomimesis. 2. The Geometric Universe. 3. Writing with Light. 4. The Mechanical Eye of Reason. 5. Promiscuous Meanings. 6. The Mobile Frame. 7. Flickering in Eclipses. 8. The Ends of Representation -- Pt. 2. Photomnemonics. 1. The Eye of the Camera Faces Backwards. 2. The Law of Progress. 3. The Crisis of Memory. 4. Amnesic Cultures. 5. Eternity's Hostage: The Camera and the Archive. 6. Intolerable Memories. 7. Biodegradable Histories -- Pt. 3. The New Plasticity of Space and Time. 1. Pure Speed: From Transport to Teleport. 2. Reconstructing 'the World'. 3. The Myth of the Centre. 4. In the Neon Forest. 5. Interzones. 6. Unstable Architectures. 7. Telepresence and the Government of Time.