This is a highly original indeed an extraordinary book standing out amongthe conventional philosophical treatments of subjectivity and reaching beyondthe conven... » 

This is a highly original indeed an extraordinary book standing out amongthe conventional philosophical treatments of subjectivity and reaching beyondthe conventional area of investigation. Boynes feat is to find overlooked andunexplored angles which recast one of the perennial and ostensibly thoroughlyfamiliar philosophical issues in a novel and fascinating light ZygmuntBaumanThis book explores the relationships between visual culture social theory andthe individual. Visual culture has emerged as a central area of debate andresearch in contemporary sociology yet the field is still underdefined. Inparticular the relationship between visual culture and the individual remainsobscure. Sociologists have insisted that all aspects of the individual are opento sociological explanation. The result is that the individual sometimes seemsto have been theorized away from sociological understanding.Using a wide range of resources from Bourdieus action theory and thecontribution of actor network theory through to the artistic explorations ofFrancis Bacon and Barnett Newman this book shows how the concept of theindividual is being reconstructed. «