Kniga predstavlyaet soboy issledovanie vizual'noy i audial'noy kul'tury sovetskoy epokhi rannego perioda.V dostupnoy shirokomu krugu chitateley forme rasskazano o proyavleniyakh, s odnoy storony, normativnogo chuvstvennogo vospriyatiya, a s drugoy storony - o vsevozmozhnykh deformatsiyakh, svyazannykh so zritel'nym i slukhovym kanalami polucheniya i obrabotki informatsii. Deviantnye formy (slepota, blizorukost', kosoglazie, glukhota, molchanie i t.d.), vstrechayushchiesya v sovetskoy literature 1920-1930-kh godov, libo razvivayut traditsionnye simvolicheskie predstavleniya, libo stanovyatsya elementami novoy mifologicheskoy sistemy. Na obshirnom materiale (khudozhestvennye teksty bolee 50 avtorov) rassmatrivaetsya logika stanovleniya novoy kul'tury, ee etiki i estetiki, v opredelennom - audiovizual'nom - aspekte.