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In/Different Spaces: Place and Memory in Visual Culture

In/Different Spaces: Place and Memory in Visual Culture

Burgin, Victor

Paperback

PhilosophyGeneral ArchitectureGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0520202996
ISBN13: 9780520202993
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: Oct 31 1996
Pages: 329
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.76 Width: 6.08 Depth: 9.08
Language: English
Recent discussions about the culture of images have focused on issues of identity--sexual, racial, national--and the boundaries that define subjectivity. In this context Victor Burgin adopts an original critical strategy. He understands images less in traditional terms of the specific institutions that produce them, such as cinema, photography, advertising, and television, and more as hybrid mental constructs composed of fragments derived from the heterogeneous sources that together constitute the media. Through deft analyses of a photograph by Helmut Newton, Parisian cityscapes, the space of the department store, a film by Ousmane Sembéne, and the writings of Henri Lefebvre, Andrè Breton, and Roland Barthes, Burgin develops an incisive theory of our culture of images and spectacle.

In/Different Spaces explores the construction of identities in the psychical space between perception and consciousness, drawing upon psychoanalytic theories to describe the constitution and maintenance of self and us--in imaginary spatial and temporal relations to other and them--through the all-important relay of images. For Burgin, the image is never a transparent representation of the world but rather a principal player on the stage of history.

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