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“SHAKEN OUT OF THE RUTS OF ORDINARY PERCEPTION”:
VISION, CULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY IN THE PSYCHEDELIC SIXTIES
by
Andrew Derek Syder
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
CINEMATIC ARTS (CRITICAL STUDIES)
May 2009
Copyright 2009 Andrew Derek Syder
Object Description
| Title | "Shaken out of the ruts of ordinary perception": vision, culture and technology in the psychedelic sixties |
| Author | Syder, Andrew Derek |
| Author email | andrewsyder@gmail.com; asyder@fsu.edu |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Cinema-Television (Critical Studies) |
| School | School of Cinematic Arts |
| Date defended/completed | 2008-12-16 |
| Date submitted | 2009 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2009-03-09 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | McPherson, Tara |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Anderson, Steven F. Thomas, Douglas |
| Abstract | This study examines the interconnected and symbiotic relationship between vision and technologies of vision. It investigates how visual media technologies have been employed historically as tools and metaphors for understanding human sensory perception; and it explores, in turn, how ideas about perception have influenced the ways in which imaging technologies have been thought about and used. To investigate these histories, the study focuses on the psychedelic movement of the 1960s as a case study. It examines how relationships between vision, technology, and culture were explored through such texts as commercial feature films, "mixed-media" happenings, computer and video art, and the published writings of such influential authors as Aldous Huxley and Timothy Leary.; The study is intended to contribute to a larger project within visual culture studies of mapping a "history of vision" -- or, more precisely, a history of how ideas about vision, technology, and culture have been fought over and shaped. It argues that the 1960s represented a cultural and historical moment in which the relationships between vision and technology were being hotly contested and reconfigured -- a moment when photographic and cinematic metaphors for seeing (which had been dominant since the nineteenth century) were being challenged by metaphors deriving from emergent electronic and digital technologies -- and it argues that the works of the psychedelic culture from the period played a significant role in framing ideas about vision around this shifting technological landscape. |
| Keyword | vision; technology; visual culture; cinema; cybernetics; perception; phenomenology; psychedelic; psychedelia; 1960s; sixties counterculture; drugs; LSD; mixed-media; television; video art; computer art |
| Coverage date | 1960/1970 |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m2007 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Syder, Andrew Derek |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Filename | etd-Syder-2592 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume14/etd-Syder-2592.pdf |
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| Title | Page 1 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Full text | “SHAKEN OUT OF THE RUTS OF ORDINARY PERCEPTION”: VISION, CULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY IN THE PSYCHEDELIC SIXTIES by Andrew Derek Syder A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY CINEMATIC ARTS (CRITICAL STUDIES) May 2009 Copyright 2009 Andrew Derek Syder |
