the critiques of The Gaze by the french theorists: vision is indeed very loaded; it is our entry way into the symbolic order; it is the primary method of indoctrination. there is an exploitative dimension and power dynamic in the relationship between the looker and the looked upon.
to be suspicious of vision and list the ways it is controled by ideology i suppose may be the logical next step after questioning reasons for its priviledge in our society.
from nono:
to be suspicious of vision and list the ways it is controled by ideology i suppose may be the logical next step after questioning reasons for its priviledge in our society.
from nono:
McLuhan... strangely claimed that the invention of the printing press didn't so much privilege the word over the image, but rather introduced a whole visual regime of rigid, hierarchical thinking and existing. Having to wade through his style, many people don't notice that McLuhan associated the new electronic culture, which he was so famous for promoting, with a new auditory culture that would be more fluid. He hope that the ear would come to replace the eye in the global village.