Is human vision universal and largely unchanging, or historically conditioned? What happened to the Western understanding of vision when the camera obscuraAa simple pinhole camera popular in the 17th and 18th centuriesAgave way to the Kodak? Columbia University art historian Crary brings a multidisciplinary approach to such questions, and though his work is densely written for ...(展开全部)

作者简介 乔纳森·克拉里（Jonathan Crary），美国著名艺术史家，视觉文化研究者。现为哥伦比亚大学现代艺术与理论夏皮罗讲席教授。区域（Zone）出版社创始人。著有《观察者的技术》《知觉的悬置》《24/7》等，已译成近二十种语言，被公认为当今世界最活跃的视觉研究者之一。 沈语冰，复旦大学特聘教授，复旦大学哲学学院博士生导师，兼浙江大学世界艺术研究中心主任。著有《20世纪艺术批评》，并获教育部第四届人文社科优秀科研成果二等奖。独立或合作译有《塞尚及其画风的发展》等12部，其中《现代生活的画像：马奈及其追随者艺术中的巴黎》获AAC第八届“艺术中国·年度影响力”年度艺术类出版物最终提名奖。因“长期致力于系统翻译介绍西方现当代艺术理论，为中国艺术研究做出重大贡献，丰富了中文世界的学术视野”，获第二届当代艺术思想论坛艺术理论奖。 贺玉高，1975年生于...(展开全部)

What is the correct way to see color in a modern, scientific society? And who decides? In The Republic of Color, Michael Rossi delves deep into the history of color science in the United States to trace its complex origins and examine the scope of its influence on the industrial transformation of turn-of-the-century America. For a nation in the grip of profound economic, cultu...(展开全部)

Sir Frank Kermode, the British scholar, teacher, and author, was an inspired critic. "Forms of Attention" is based on a series of three lectures he gave on canon formation, or how we choose what art to value. The opening essay, on Botticelli, traces the artist's sudden popularity in the nineteenth century for reasons that have more to do with poetry than painting. In the second...(展开全部)

In Infrahumanisms Megan H. Glick considers how conversations surrounding nonhuman life have impacted a broad range of attitudes toward forms of human difference such as race, sexuality, and health. She examines the history of human and nonhuman subjectivity as told through twentieth-century scientific and cultural discourses that include pediatrics, primatology, eugenics, exobi...(展开全部)

The Doors of Perception is a 1954 book by Aldous Huxley detailing his experiences when taking mescaline. This short book is considered to be one of the most profound studies of the effects of mind-expanding drugs and what they teach about how the mind works. The title comes from William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: "If the doors of perception were cleansed,every thi...(展开全部)

This highly original, groundbreaking study explores the profound relationship between science and government to present a new understanding of modern state formation. Beginning with the experimental science of Robert Boyle in seventeenth-century England, Patrick Carroll develops the concept of engine science to capture the centrality of engineering practices and technologies in...(展开全部)

约翰·J.瑞迪，哈佛医学院知名精神学教授和畅销书作家，曾出版过Drzvento Distraction，Answers to Distraction和ShadawSyndromes。目前家居马萨诸塞州波士顿城西的小镇威尔斯利。

John Ratey, bestselling author and clinical professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, here lucidly explains the human brain’s workings, and paves the way for a better understanding of how the brain affects who we are. Ratey provides insight into the basic structure and chemistry of the brain, and demonstrates how its systems shape our perceptions, emotions, and behavio...(展开全部)

The Das Kapital of the 20th century. An essential text, and the main theoretical work of the situationists. Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative. From its publication amid the social upheavals of the 1960's up to the present, the volatile theses of this book have decisively transformed debates on the shape of modernity, capitalism, and ...(展开全部)