The metamorphoses of the Prince
The Latin American national state of the late nineteenth century organized public life by setting new forms of visibility. It assumed technologies as a look police that imposed modern rules on bodies, landscapes and cities. In this way the old functions of the baroque prince were assumed by a scopic...
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2017
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Afegir etiqueta | Sumari: | The Latin American national state of the late nineteenth century organized public life by setting new forms of visibility. It assumed technologies as a look police that imposed modern rules on bodies, landscapes and cities. In this way the old functions of the baroque prince were assumed by a scopic governance that focused its efforts on nationalizing the masses, through images and educating them around signs of decency, control and order. A symbolic contract was established between the state bureaucracy and the optical devices, allowing photography and cinema to become the instruments of an aesthetic and a sovereign subjectivity. |
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