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As an attempt to critically engage with the contemporary visual experience, this chapter explores the horizontal, vertical, and virtual viewpoints. Its main purpose is to question the virtual realm as a place where technology allows for various visual experiences including new, digital, and oblique perspectives on both horizontality and verticality.
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This contribution, in the format of a short essay, draws on a longer piece titled “On the Contemporary Visual Experience,” originally published in the 2019 Streetnotes issue (vol. 26): “From Above: The Practice of Verticality,” which I co-edited with Blagovesta Momchedjikova. On a personal note, I completed my Ph.D. at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris) in 2004 under the supervision of Dominique Schnapper. As it turns out, her father Raymond Aron directly influenced my grandfather, Jorge Borges de Macedo.
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De La Barre, J. (2021). Selling the View. In: Brites Pereira, L., Mata, M.E., Rocha de Sousa, M. (eds) Economic Globalization and Governance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53265-9_19
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