Abstract
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.
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.
| Original language | English |
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| Publisher | Peter Lang |
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| Number of pages | 358 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-3-0343-0985-1 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 978-3-0353-0671-2 |
| Publication status | Published - 2015 |
| Series | Cultural History and Literary Imagination |
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| Volume | 23 |
| ISSN | 1660-6205 |