Buck-Morss, Susan
Buck-Morss, Susan
Bio Sketch
Susan Buck-Morss is an American philosopher, political theorist, and critical theorist (formerly Cornell, then CUNY Graduate Center), widely known for her work on Walter Benjamin, the culture industry, and the political implications of aesthetics and the sensorium.
Key Works
- "Aesthetics and Anaesthetics: Walter Benjamin's Artwork Essay Reconsidered" (October 62, 1992) — the concept of anaesthetics and the numbed, shocked/submerged sensorium of the modern city.
- The Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project (1989); Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History (2009).
Key Concepts
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Relevance to Geoffrey's Research
Buck-Morss matters to Geoffrey's spectacle, semiotics & representation, and noopolitics concerns: her account of Benjaminian anaesthetics — how the sensorium is numbed and reorganized by the modern and hyper-mediated city — is central to Lahiji's critique of the contemporary architectural spectacle and to questions of perception, affect, and control (cf. Spencer's "affective turn as governance").
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