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Article
The Cultural Paradigm of Visuality in Times of Blindness
Author(s)
Paulo Alexandre e Castro
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DOI:10.17265/2328-2177/2023.05.004
Affiliation(s)
IEF-Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
ABSTRACT
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.
KEYWORDS
visuality, visible, Diderot, Magritte, Merleau-Ponty, blindness
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