Spectacle of Visual Culture: General Overview of Visual Culture

Author: Jacques Lacan
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Publish Date: 2005-12-01
Features: What is "Visual Culture Studies"? What is the spirit of this field of study? What are its methodological characteristics? If the primary function of vision is to see, then what relationships exist between seeing and being seen, between seeing and the machine of seeing, and between the subjectivity of vision and the Other? Around these questions, the selected essays in this book will provide readers with a basic map, but not answers. Among them, the works of Jacques Lacan, Jean Baudrillard, Guy Debord, and others have become classic texts in visual culture studies, while the writings of Mickel Bal and Victor Burgin can be said to represent the newest achievements in this field.