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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 Lectures1. Money, or The Other Side of Images
32. The Point of (No) Exchange, or The Debt- Image
273. Innervation, or The Gaze of Capital
43Additional FeaturesMerchandise: Godzilla's Eye
79Deleted Scenes: Doors and Slide Changers in Pickpocket and Obsession
84Deleted Scenes: Three Variations on Time and Money (Antonioni, De Palma, Bresson)
88Photo Gallery: Blow- Up, or Why There Are No Images
92Locations: 23, rue Bénard, Paris, 75014
99Deleted Scene: The Fluctuations of the Unchained Camera (L'Herbier)
101Deleted Scenes: The General Fetishism of the Marxes
103Deleted Scenes: The Amortization of the Gaze (King Kong)
106Formats: Surplus Definition (Redacted)
112Credits 121Notes 123Index 155
About the 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..
