The supermarket of the visible : toward a general economy of images /
Peter Szendy ; translated by Jan Plug.
- First edition.
- New York : Fordham University Press, (c)2019.
- 1 online resource (viii, 161 pages).
- Thinking out loud : the Sydney lectures in philosophy and society .
Translated from the French.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Cover; The Supermarket of the Visible; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; Sydney Lectures; 1. Money, or The Other Side of Images; 2. The Point of (No) Exchange, or The Debt-Image; 3. Innervation, or The Gaze of Capital; Additional Features; Merchandise: Godzilla's Eye; Deleted Scenes: Doors and Slide Changers in Pickpocket and Obsession; Deleted Scenes: Three Variations on Time and Money (Antonioni, De Palma, Bresson); Photo Gallery: Blow-Up, or Why There Are No Images; Locations: 23, rue Bénard, Paris, 75014; Deleted Scene: The Fluctuations of the Unchained Camera (L'Herbier) Deleted Scenes: The General Fetishism of the MarxesDeleted Scenes: The Amortization of the Gaze (King Kong); Formats: Surplus Definition (Redacted); Credits; Notes; Index; AUTHOR BIOS
The Supermarket of the Visible elaborates a political economy of the images that saturate our world. From the first elevators and escalators (tracking shots avant la lettre) to cinema (the great conductor of gazes), all the way down to contemporary eye-tracking techniques that monitor the slightest saccades of our eyes, Peter Szendy offers an entirely novel theory of the intersection of visual culture and economics.