The Supermarket of the Visible (eBook)

Toward a General Economy of Images

Peter Szendy (Autor)

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2019
160 Seiten
Fordham University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8232-8359-0 (ISBN)

Infos

The Supermarket of the Visible elaborates a political economy of the images that saturate our world. From the first elevators and escalators (tracking shots avant la lettre) to cinema (the great conductor of gazes), all the way down to contemporary eye-tracking techniques that monitor the slightest saccades of our eyes, Peter Szendy offers an entirely novel theory of the intersection of visual culture and economics.

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Already in 1929, Walter Benjamin described "e;a one hundred per cent image-space."e; Such an image space saturates our world now more than ever, constituting the visibility in which we live. The Supermarket of the Visible analyzes this space and the icons that populate it as the culmination of a history of the circulation and general commodification of images and gazes. From the first elevators and escalators (tracking shots avant la lettre) to cinema (the great conductor of gazes), all the way down to contemporary eye-tracking techniques that monitor the slightest saccades of our eyes, Peter Szendy offers an entirely novel theory of the intersection of the image and economics.The Supermarket of the Visible elaborates an economy proper to images, icons, in other words, an iconomy. Deleuze caught a glimpse of this when he wrote that money is the back side of all the images that cinema shows and edits on the front. Since cinema, for Deleuze, is synonymous with universe, Szendy argues that this sentence must be understood in its broadest dimension and that a reading of key works in the history of cinema allows us a unique vantage point upon the reverse of images, their monetary implications. Paying close attention to sequences in Hitchcock, Bresson, Antonioni, De Palma, and The Sopranos, Szendy shows how cinema is not a uniquely commercial art form among other, purer arts, but, more fundamentally, helps to elaborate what might be called, with Bataille, a general iconomy.Moving deftly and lightly between political economy, aesthetic theory, and popular movies and television, The Supermarket of the Visible will be a necessary book for anyone concerned with media, philosophy, politics, or visual culture.

Autor

lt;b>Peter Szendy (Author)
Peter Szendy is David Herlihy Professor of Humanities and Comparative Literature at Brown University and musicological advisor for the concert programs at the Paris Philharmonie. His books include Of Stigmatology: Punctuation as Experience; All Ears: The Aesthetics of Espionage; Apocalypse-Cinema: 2012 and Other Ends of the World; Kant in the Land of Extraterrestrials; Hits: Philosophy in the Jukebox; and Listen: A History of Our Ears..

Jan Plug (Translator)
Jan Plug is Professor of English at the University of Western Ontario. Among his other translations is Peter Szendy’s Of Stigmatology: Punctuation as Experience.

Inhalt

Sydney Lectures

1. Money, or The Other Side of Images 3

2. The Point of (No) Exchange, or The Debt- Image 27

3. Innervation, or The Gaze of Capital 43

Additional Features

Merchandise: Godzilla’s Eye 79

Deleted Scenes: Doors and Slide Changers in Pickpocket and Obsession 84

Deleted Scenes: Three Variations on Time and Money (Antonioni, De Palma, Bresson) 88

Photo Gallery: Blow- Up, or Why There Are No Images 92

Locations: 23, rue Bénard, Paris, 75014 99

Deleted Scene: The Fluctuations of the Unchained Camera (L’Herbier) 101

Deleted Scenes: The General Fetishism of the Marxes 103

Deleted Scenes: The Amortization of the Gaze (King Kong) 106

Formats: Surplus Definition (Redacted) 112

Credits 121

Notes 123

Index 155

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 2.4.2019
• Reihe/Serie: Thinking Out Loud
• Übersetzer: Jan Plug
• Zusatzinfo: 55
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
• Schlagworte: Aesthetics • Benjamin • Cinema • Deleuze • economy • Elevators • Escalators • Eye-Tracking • Film • Image • Innervation • MONEY • Political Economy
• ISBN-10: 0-8232-8359-3 / 0823283593
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8232-8359-0 / 9780823283590