The Techniques of the observer. On the vision and modernity in th

Jonathan Crary´s Techniques of the Observer provides a dramatically new perspective on the visual culture of the nineteenth century, reassessing problems of both visual modernism and social modernity. This analysis of the historical formation of the observer is a compelling account of the prehistory of the society of the spectacle.Techniques of the Observer will be a vital resource for anyone concerned with the complex interaction of technological modernization and aesthetic modernism and provides a stunning challenge to conventional wisdom about the epochal transformation of visual culture in the nineteenth century.