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Proxies: The Cultural Work of Standing In
by Dylan Mulvin.
MIT, 274 pp., £40, August 2021,978 0 262 04514 8 Show More
by Dylan Mulvin.
MIT, 274 pp., £40, August 2021,
“... as to make erotic images interchangeable with wildlife photography. Objects such as these are what Dylan Mulvin, a historian of media and technology, calls ‘proxies’. The influence of such proxies, he shows, is sometimes subtle, sometimes obvious, but invariably underexamined. There are economic proxies like the 730 items that make up the consumer ... ”
