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Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- 1: Introduction: Vision & -- Verticality-A More Visual Sociology of the Sky -- Droneviewing and Visual Environments -- Tourist Droneviewing -- Vertical Eyesores: The Case of Scaffolding and Aerial Cableways in Urban Environments -- Towards a More Visual Sociology… -- References -- Part I: Experimental and Experiential Approaches to Volume and Atmospheres -- 2: Open-Weather Feminist Handbook: A Preamble -- References -- 3: Of Carnal Gravity: A Three-Voice Conversation -- 4: Seeing in Verticality: From 'Vertical Gaze' to 'Figuring Out' -- Introduction: On the Arrogance of the Vertical Gaze -- The Constitution of Urban Perception -- The Promise of Seamlessness -- The Cognitive Mapping of Urban Navigation -- New Potentials for 'Figuring Out' the Environment -- References -- 5: Vertical Visualities, Experiences and Inequalities: A Conversation with Stephen Graham -- Vertical Viewing -- Manufacturing Air and Urban Air Crisis -- Final Thoughts -- Part II: Sensing, Seeing, and Monitoring from Above -- 6: Repositioning Drone Sensing in Landscape Urbanism and Planning -- Introduction -- Twinning Reality -- Aerial Mobility -- Shaping Aerial Futures -- Knowledges, Volumes, Futures: Discussion -- Knowledges -- Volumes -- Futures -- Conclusion -- References -- 7: Vocabularies of Drone Sensing -- Introduction -- Seeing-Sensing Drone Volumes -- Drone Sensing Nuclear Volumes -- More than Human Agencies -- Vocabularies of (Drone Sensing) Volume -- Conclusions -- References -- 8: Viewing from Where? Satellite Imaging and the Politics of Space Technology: Unpacking Depravity's Rainbow -- References -- 9: The Algorithmic Apparatus of Neocolonialism: Counter-Operational Practices and the Future of Aerial Surveillance -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V.
Part III: Assembling and Representing: Artistic Perspectives on Volume, Vertigo, and Falling -- 10: Wassily Kandinsky and the Aerial Gaze: Questioning the Punctual, Linear and Planar Forces Inherent in the Politics of Visibility Conveyed by Police Drones -- Introduction -- Towards a Relational and Relativist Understanding of Points, Lines and Planes -- Points, Lines and Planes in Existing Social-Scientific Literatures -- Points, Lines and Planes in Abstract Painting -- Punctual Linear and Planar Forces Inherent in the Drone Gaze -- Punctual Logics of Vision -- Linear Logics of Vision -- Planar Logics of Vision -- Flexible and Interacting Spatial Logics of Vision -- Conclusion: Thinking Beyond Points, Lines and Planes -- References -- 11: After Falling Away: Reflections on a Vertiginous Art Exhibition -- References -- 12: Towards a Typology of Imaginary Skyscrapers -- Post-Modern Falling Dreams -- Devotion to Emptiness -- The Humanization of Lost Individuality -- The Ultimate Invasion of Urbanity by Nature -- Fictional Reality -- Visionary City -- Conquering Individual Spaces to Outdated Futuristic Structures -- 13: Higher Returns -- References -- Part IV: Mapping Cultural Landscapes, Vertically -- 14: Epistemology of the 'Laje': Notes from Favela Rooftops -- Opening the Closet, Climbing (on)to the Laje -- The Laje and Its Forms of Mobility -- The Laje as Non-expert Design -- Not to Conclude -- References -- 15: Rio's "Natural Born Monument": Visual Imaginaries of The Sugarloaf Mountain -- Step 1: "Seeing the View" -- Step 2: "Selling the View" -- Step 3: "Virtualizing the View" -- Final Step on Visual Culture: Beyond (Post-)photography? -- References -- 16: Elemental Monsters: Aeolian Politics and the Protests Against Renewable Energy in Tinos, Greece -- References.
17: Revitalization and Touristification: The Vertical Cultural Landscape of Dacha Community in Siberia -- Introduction -- Dacha as Vernacular Heritage -- Touristifying and Normalizing Dacha: Polden-Park Project -- Disciplining Verticality -- Summary -- References -- Index.
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Sociology of the visual sphere / / edited by Regev Nathansohn and Dennis Zuev
