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Record Nr.

UNINA9910826267803321

Autore

Lippit Akira Mizuta

Titolo

Atomic light (shadow optics) / / Akira Mizuta Lippit

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, Minn. ; ; London, : University of Minnesota, 2005

ISBN

0-8166-9747-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (208p.)

Classificazione

08.36

Disciplina

121.35

Soggetti

Vision

Eye

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; 0. Universes; 1. The Shadow Archive (A Secret Light); 2. Modes of Avisuality: Psychoanalysis-X-ray-Cinema; 3. Cinema Surface Design; 4. An Atomic Trace; 5. Exscription/Antigraphy; 6. Phantom Cures: Obscurity and Emptiness; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Dreams, x-rays, atomic radiation, and "invisible men" are phenomena that are visual in nature but unseen. Atomic Light (Shadow Optics) reveals these hidden interiors of cultural life. Akira Mizuta Lippit produces readings of secret and shadow archives and visual structures or phenomenologies of the inside, charting the materiality of what can and cannot be seen in the radioactive light of the twentieth century.