Naslov
Suspension of the Eye: Commodity Fetishism as an Observing Technique

Autori
Mijatović, Aleksandar

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u zbornicima skupova, cjeloviti rad (in extenso), ostalo

Skup
Faces of Culture 1

Mjesto i datum
Opatija, Hrvatska; Rijeka, Hrvatska, 14.10.2005. - 16.10.2005

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
tijelo; camera obscura; roba; robni fetišizam; materijalnost; stereoskop; viđenje
(body; camera obscura; commodity; commodity fetishism; materiality; stereoscope; vision)

Sažetak
This paper stresses the commodity character of the nineteenth century optical technology that suppresses activity of the sensorium of the observing subjectivity. An issue of an illusion of the sight, must be replaced with the theoretically and historically more appropriate problematic of a reification of the visual sensation. Beside various kinds of a technical and institutional ways for producing sights, seeing depends on the fetishistic blindness: invisibility of the genuinely visible objects, and conversely, visibility of the genuinely invisible phenomena. Therefore, physiological-subjective vision that is described in the work of Jonathan Crary must be completed with a concept of vision that is implied in the Marx's analysis of an ideology, political representation, and fetishistic character of the commodity.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filologija

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