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Siegfried Zielinski’s exploration of “hearing and seeing” through an archaeology of scopic and sonic apparatuses (2006) includes the sort of engravings and diagrams of gadgets and devices that pepper Crary and Jay’s work. Here too the apparatuses for investigating seeing and hearing open up questions of subjectivity and biopower that Zielinski argues resonate in contemporary …
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For many commentators, Carry’s work is primarily about the subject. Insofar as Crary’s target is the “observer”, “one who sees within a prescribed set of possibilities, one who is embedded in a system of conventions and limitations” (Crary 2001: 6), they are of course correct. For Crary, technology is not a separate realm but an …
Jonathan Crary is interested in the history of visuality and scopic apparatuses but in some ways he is equally interested in the ways in which that story has been told, in its periodisation. For Crary, as for Martin Jay, the tendency to homogenise or render linear regimes or technologies not only needs to be challenged …
One can explore protocol from a philosophical point of view. Indeed my critique of existing accounts of protocol has been that they do not explore the ontological status of the protocol object within its networks. Latour of course would take issue with this approach, one that tries to extend Actor-network theory into a philosophical project. …
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When people hear that I am working on a ‘practice-research’ PhD the first question is usually what the ‘subject’ is and the second what my ‘practice’ is. It is clear from the literature around practice-research, often built around the case study (Barrett and Bolt 2010) that the “creative work”, the object is integral to practice-research’s …
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A key concern for Jay, in Scopic Regimes of Modernity (1988) and notably in Downcast Eyes (1993) is “ocularcentrism”, a tendency towards visual metaphors, models, concepts and priorities within cultural, scientific, political and religious discourse. In his interview with Marquard Smith, Jay says it was while working on a history of Western Marxism (1984) that …