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Vision, Attention and Extractive Capitalism
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| Year of publication | 2024 |
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| Description | The required lecture took place in the Visual Anthropology/Visual Culture course at the Faculty of Social Studies under the invitation of Paride Bollettin (Assistant Professor, Faculty of Science, Department of Anthropology). The lecture covered the topics of the historicity of vision, the visual regimes of the classical age and modernity, and the complex interplay between institutions, scientific knowledge, social relations and visual apparatus from a historical epistemology perspective. Leaning on the work of authors such as Jonathan Crary, Bernard Stiegler, and Tiziana Terranova, the course aimed to show how the mutations introduced since modernity in the status of the observer are related to the emergence of industrial capitalism and how the 'crisis of attention' linked to the modern subject of vision reoccurs and exacerbates in the attention economy of the Internet 2.0. The lecture ended with an open discussion on the issues presented, guided by a short questionnaire. |
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