The book presents new models of vision and examines modern theories of seeing in the context of contemporary critical practice. It includes essays about modern vision and its physiological substrate (Jonathan Crary), its psychic imbrication (Jacqueline Rose) and subversion (Rosalind Krauss), production of (inter)subjectivity (Norman Bryson) and historization of vision (Martin Jay).These texts were prepared for a day‑long symposium held on April 30, 1998. It's accompanied by edited transcripts of discussions between symposium participants.

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