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Scott McQuire - University of Melbourne, Australia

Courses:
Sociological Theory

February 1998 | 288 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd

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 technologiesùphotography, cinema, televisionùScott 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 changesùperceptual, experiential, epistemologicalùthat characterize modernity. This book will be of interest to students of sociology, media and cultural studies, art history, geography, and anthropology.

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Introduction

The Origin of the Image: The Image of the Origin

PART ONE: THE RUINS OF REPRESENTATION

Photomimesis

The Geometric Universe

Writing with Light

The Mechanical Eye of Reason

Promiscuous Meanings

The Mobile Frame

Flickering in Eclipses

The Ends of Representation

PART TWO: PHOTOMNEMONICS

The Eye of the Camera Faces Backwards

The Law of Progress

The Crisis of Memory

Amnesic Cultures

Eternity's Hostage

The Camera and the Archive

Intolerable Memories

Biodegradable Histories

PART THREE: THE NEW PLASTICITY OF SPACE AND TIME

Pure Speed

From Transport to Teleport

Reconstructing `the World'

The Myth of the Centre

In the Neon Forest

Interzones

Unstable Architectures

Telepresence and the Government of Time

`McQuire has produced a comprehensive and lucidly written account of the camera-driven transformations across the period we may now retrospectively call "modernity"' - Victor Burgin, Unviersity of California, Santa Cruz

`Visions of Modernity offers an admirable overview of modern visual culture. But, more than this, it takes us through a wide range of debates in cultural theory. McQuire has produced an encompassing, and very impressive work of intellectual synthesis' - Kevin Robins, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne

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