Vertical vision and atmocultural navigation. Notes on emerging urban scopic regimes.
This paper analyses vertical vision by tracing its possible genealogy and exploring the forms it takes in the contemporary city. In the first section, vertical vision is situated in the context of its cosmographic tenets. In the second section, the critique of verticality is complemented by a topolo...
| Publicado en: | Visual Studies Vol. 35; no. 5; pp. 429 - 442 |
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