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Jet Age Airport And The Spectacle Of Technology Between Sky And Earth By Vanessa R.

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This week's reading, titled DIMANCHE À ORLY: The Jet-Age Airport and the Spectacle of Technology between Sky and Earth by Vanessa R. Schwartz is a dialogue about the rapid technological and societal changes attributed to the jet age of the early 1960s. Schwartz focuses on the spectacle of the international Orly airport in France that set a precedent for worldwide air travel thereafter. In the theme of discussion about the circulation of images, one must relate to the development and progress of air travel. As Schwartz examines in her article, the advancements of modern air travel resulted in the expansion of image circulation. As a product of the now increasingly accessible global travel, there was now an equal opportunity for easier access
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