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" Antiquity had been a civilization of spectacle. 'To render accessible to a multitude of men the inspection of a small number of objects': this was the problem to which the architecture of temples, theatres and circuses responded. With spectacle, there... "
The Simplest of Signs: Victor Hugo and the Language of Images in France ... - Page 81
by Timothy Bell Raser - 2004 - 217 pages
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Culture/power/history: A Reader in Contemporary Social Theory

Nicholas B. Dirks, Geoff Eley, Sherry B. Ortner - Social Science - 1994 - 646 pages
...quotation of Julius, that "is one not of spectacle, but of surveillance": Antiquity had been a civilisation of spectacle. "To render accessible to a multitude...architecture of temples, theatres and circuses responded. ... In a society in which the principal elements are no longer the community and public life, but on...
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Law and Literature: Text and Theory

Lenora Ledwon - Law and literature - 1996 - 522 pages
...it is merely the solution of a technical problem; but, through it, a whole type of society emerges. Antiquity had been a civilization of spectacle. To...architecture of temples, theatres and circuses responded. With spectacle, there was a predominance of public life, the intensity of festivals, sensual proximity....
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Law and Literature: Text and Theory

Lenora Ledwon - Law and literature - 1996 - 524 pages
...it is merely the solution of a technical problem; but, through it, a whole type of society emerges. Antiquity had been a civilization of spectacle. To...to which the architecture of temples, theatres and cireuses responded. With spectacle, there was a predominance of public life, the intensity of festivals,...
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The City of Collective Memory: Its Historical Imagery and Architectural ...

M. Christine Boyer - Architecture - 1994 - 580 pages
...spectacle. [Quoting NH Julius, who wrote of the Panopticon in 1831, Foucault continued] "To render accesible to a multitude of men the inspection of a small number...architecture of temples, theatres and circuses responded. With spectacle, there was a predominance of public life, the intensity of festivals, sensual proximity....
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Representing the Nation: A Reader : Histories, Heritage and Museums

Jessica Evans, David Boswell - Art - 1999 - 492 pages
...quotation of Julius, that 'is one not of spectacle, but of surveillance': Antiquity had been a civilisation of spectacle. "To render accessible to a multitude...architecture of temples, theatres and circuses responded. ... In a society in which the principal elements are no longer the community and public life, but,...
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Representing the Nation: A Reader : Histories, Heritage and Museums

Jessica Evans, David Boswell - Art - 1999 - 486 pages
...surveillance': Antiquitv had been a civilisation of spectacle. 'To render accessible to a multitude ot men the inspection of a small number of objects':...architecture of temples, theatres and circuses responded. ... In a society in which the principal elements are no longer the community and public life, but,...
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Looking West

John D. Dorst - History - 1999 - 260 pages
...hallmark panoptic institutions of the modern age. The distinction is between social mechanisms that "render accessible to a multitude of men the inspection of a small number of objects," and those that "procure for a small number, or even for a single individual, the instantaneous view...
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After the City

Lars Lerup - Architecture - 2000 - 212 pages
...world and the darkness of the private, Hannah Arendt's Greek polis. The purpose of this duality was "to render accessible to a multitude of men the inspection...the architecture of temples, theatres and circuses responded."18 When the wanderer joins his fellow tourists with their guides, maps, and incessant picture-taking,...
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Organizational Studies: Selves and subjects

Business & Economics - 2001 - 568 pages
...it is merely the solution of a technical problem; but. through it, a whole type of society emerges. Antiquity had been a civilization of spectacle. To...architecture of temples, theatres and circuses responded. With spectacle, there was a predominance of public life, the intensity of festivals, sensual proximity....
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Global and Organizational Discourse about Information Technology: IFIP TC8 ...

Eleanor H. Wynn, Edgar Whitley, Michael MYERS, Janice DeGross - Business & Economics - 2002 - 566 pages
...by Foucault (1977) as change in the society from Antiquity, where the problem with architecture was to render accessible to a multitude of men the inspection of a small number of objects, to the modern age of Panopticon; to procure for a small number the instantaneous view of a great multitude....
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