Seeing From Above: A Particular History of the General Observer

Anders Ekström

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In his essay on the Eiffel Tower, Roland Barthes associates the bird’s eye view of nineteenth‐century Paris with “a new sensibility of vision.” Rather than presenting something spectacular or unsee...

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1980Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings 1972-1977 1991Techniques of the observer: on vision and modernity in the nineteenth century 1993Media Events: The Live Broadcasting of History.1992The Image of Objectivity 1999Suspensions of Perception 1992Objectivity and the Escape from Perspective 1997Why Is Classical Theory Classical?2001Suspensions of perception: Attention, spectacle, and modern culture

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