The Blind Man : a Phantasmography.

The Blind Man: A Phantasmography examines the complicated forces of perception, imagination, and phantasms of encounter in the contemporary world. In considering photographs he took while he was traveling in France, anthropologist and writer Robert Desjarlais reflects on a few pictures that show the...

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Main Author: Desjarlais, Robert
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2018.
Series:Thinking from Elsewhere Ser.
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505 0 |a Cover; THE BLIND MAN; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; Preface; Photography tears the subject from itself; Plastic intimacies; Corneal abrasion; Opticalterities; The delirium of images; Baroque vision; Phanomenology; The collector of eyes; Allusions and Acknowledgments; Notes; Selected Bibliography. 
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