Beschreibung:
Through studies of visualisation in relation to machines and the monstrous, memory, mirrors and optics, and the invisible, this book offers a new reading of - and against - Marx, together with a new way of thinking about both vision, and the nature and future of capital.
Introduction: Sight, Lucidity and the Empire of Capital 1. Camera Obscura: Optics of Modernity 2. Visuality in Capital 3. Machines, Monsters and Capital 4. The Crystal Palace 5. The Burning Library: Memory and Seeing Machines 6. Reading the Invisible in Capital 7. The Dark Forest: Trees, Space and Time 8. Senses and Counter-Capital