The Cultural Paradigm of Visuality in Times of Blindness  

作　　者：Paulo Alexandre e Castro 

机构地区：[1]IEF-Universidade de Coimbra,Coimbra,Portugal

出　　处：《Cultural and Religious Studies》2023年第5期238-240,共3页文化与宗教研究（英文版）

摘　　要：Visuality can be generically described as the quality of the visual,that is,as the given visual field in which a subject’s attention is concentrated.In fact,the visual is intrinsically linked to human vision,and this presupposes the existence of a visible horizon from which(visual)images are given.However,this formulation presents something uncanny paradoxical because it forgets,on one hand,the broader status of the image(such as auditory and olfactory images)-seeing is not just a visual process(at least since Diderot we know it)and there are mental mechanisms in the visual constitution process that help to fabricate reality and that gestalt theory has explained-and on the other hand,the possibility of seeing beyond what is visible,after all,everything(or almost everything)that presents itself in a digital and virtual environment it can be quite ontologically suspect.Based on some of these premises,we will trace a path of analysis that leads us to the current blindness:unconditional faith in digital technology and the fragile hope of happiness in a way that rejects the reality of the visible.

关 键 词：VISUALITY visible DIDEROT MAGRITTE MERLEAU-PONTY BLINDNESS 

分 类 号：G0[文化科学]