Supermarket of the Visible - Toward a General Economy of Images

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.

List of contents

Sydney Lectures

1. Money, or The Other Side of Images 3

2. The Point of (No) Exchange, or The Debt- Image 27

3. Innervation, or The Gaze of Capital 43

Additional Features

Merchandise: Godzilla's Eye 79

Deleted Scenes: Doors and Slide Changers in Pickpocket and Obsession 84

Deleted Scenes: Three Variations on Time and Money (Antonioni, De Palma, Bresson) 88

Photo Gallery: Blow- Up, or Why There Are No Images 92

Locations: 23, rue Bénard, Paris, 75014 99

Deleted Scene: The Fluctuations of the Unchained Camera (L'Herbier) 101

Deleted Scenes: The General Fetishism of the Marxes 103

Deleted Scenes: The Amortization of the Gaze (King Kong) 106

Formats: Surplus Definition (Redacted) 112

Credits 121

Notes 123

Index 155

About the author

Peter Szendy (Author)
Peter Szendy is David Herlihy Professor of Humanities and Comparative Literature at Brown University and musicological advisor for the concert programs at the Paris Philharmonie. His books include Of Stigmatology: Punctuation as Experience; All Ears: The Aesthetics of Espionage; Apocalypse-Cinema: 2012 and Other Ends of the World; Kant in the Land of Extraterrestrials; Hits: Philosophy in the Jukebox; and Listen: A History of Our Ears..
Jan Plug (Translator)
Jan Plug is Professor of English at the University of Western Ontario. Among his other translations is Peter Szendy's Of Stigmatology: Punctuation as Experience.

Product details

• Authors: Jan Plug, Peter Szendy, Peter/ Plug Szendy
• Assisted by: Jan Plug (Translation)
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2019
• EAN: 9780823283576
• ISBN: 978-0-8232-8357-6
• No. of pages: 160
• Series: Thinking Out Loud; Thinking Out Loud
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; Ästhetik, Wirtschaftspolitik, TV, Fernsehen, TV, Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism, Fernsehen - Privatfernsehen, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics