Books in the Technologies: Studies in Culture & Theory S. series

Visual technology now saturates everyday life. This book presents a wide-ranging critical reassessment of contemporary visual culture through an analysis of pivotal technological innovation from the telescope, through photography to film, drawing on the examples of Paris and New York.

This is an analysis of the challenges posed to our bodies by technology. Highlighting the playfulness of digital aesthetics, the book investigates the aesthetic and ethical issues around the ownership of our bodies and the experiments we perform on them.

An eloquent and stimulating argument for an alternative history of scientific and technological imaging systems. It explores the way in which the technological medium through which a piece of visual art is rendered contributes to the experience of the human looking at it.