Description
| Product ID: | 9783034309851 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | CH |
| Series: | Cultural History & Literary Imagination |
| Title: | Invisibility Studies |
| Subtitle: | Surveillance, Transparency and the Hidden in Contemporary Culture |
| Authors: | Author: Kristin Veel |
| Page Count: | 364 |
| Subjects: | The arts: general topics, The arts: general issues, Architecture, Literary studies: general, Cultural studies, Architecture, Literary studies: general, Cultural studies |
| Description: | Invisibility Studies explores current changes in the relationship between what we consider visible and what invisible in different areas of contemporary culture. Contributions trace the cultural significance of these developments, such as transparency and privacy in urban architecture and the invasion of surveillance into everyday life. Invisibility Studies explores current changes in the relationship between what we consider visible and what invisible in different areas of contemporary culture. Contributions trace how these changes make their marks on various cultural fields and investigate the cultural significance of these developments, such as transparency and privacy in urban architecture and the silent invasion of surveillance technologies into everyday life. The book contends that when it comes to the changing relationship of the visible and the invisible, the connection between seeing and not being seen is an exchange conditioned by physical and social settings that create certain possibilities for visibility and visuality, yet exclude others. The richness and complexity of this cultural framework means that no single discipline or interdisciplinary approach could capture it single-handedly. Invisibility Studies begins this conversation by bringing together scholars across the fields of architectural history and theory, art, film and literature, philosophy, cultural theory and contemporary anthropology as well as featuring work by a collective of artists. |
| Imprint Name: | Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissensc |
| Publisher Name: | Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2014-12-16 |
