My research looks at the production of visibility engendered by our electronic and digital screens, with a view to understanding how the device has altered the phenomenology of our perceptual field and changed our habits of seeing since its inception in the early twentieth century. The work seeks to provide a historical account of the screen’s impact on vision and conditions of visibility, against which we might be able to contextualise urgent contemporary debates over the problems of ‘screentime’ and ‘distraction’ and phenomena such as ‘virality’ and ‘influence’. Hidden power (infra)structures behind the screen might be revealed by means of sustained critical examination.
