Object's details: Wittgenstein and the Politics of Vision

Description

• PLMET:
  
  http://confluence.man.poznan.pl/community/display/FBCMETGUIDE
• Title:
  
  
  Wittgenstein and the Politics of Vision
• Creator:
  
  
  Chmielewski, Adam
  
• Subject and Keywords:
  
  
  aspect-perception
   ;
  regime of perception
   ;
  perceptual hysteresis
   ;
  political aesthetics
• Abstract:
  
  
  : In this paper some insights from the contemporary theory of vision are employed to delineate a conception of political aesthetics. By tracing the evolution in the theory of vision from Wittgenstein’s seeing-as, through Ernst Gombrich’s seeing-into, Richard Wollheim’s seeing-in, to Emmanuel Alloa’s seeing-with, I contend that while the sense of sight is a natural human endowment, the ability to see, just as other abilities, needs to be learned through a collective process which I call seeing-with-others. I argue that Wittgenstein’s repudiation of his own early view of perception may help to undermine the belief that seeing is a disinterested, impartial, and unbiased cognitive activity. Through reference to Wittgenstein’s idea of the captivating effect of a picture, I claim that mastering the art of seeing requires mastering the rules of sensory orders, or perceptual regimes, which are sustained by a collective perceptual hysteresis, and which enable one to see the reality in a specifically ordered way. I argue that human individual perceptive faculties are inescapably exposed to various influences that contribute to their contents and, more importantly, play a crucial role in the emergence and development of perceptive abilities in the first place. Since all cognitive subjects unavoidably participate to a varying degree in the enactive constitution of perceptual regimes, such interactive processes may be interpreted as democratic, though not in the consensual but in an agonistic sense.
• Project Name:
  
  
  Porządek publiczny a walka o uznanie. Estetyka polityczna wykluczeń społecznych. Grant Narodowego Centrum Nauki nr 2020/39/B/ HS1/00706
• Financing Institution:
  
  
  Narodowe Centrum Nauki
• Project Manager:
  
  
  Chmielewski, Adam
• Data collection period:
  
  
  03 03 2022 – 06 06 2024
• Data collection technique:
  
  
  library query
   ;
  
  
  kwerenda biblioteczna
• Contact person:
  
  
  Chmielewski, Adam
• Resource Type:
  
  
  text
   ;
  
  
  tekst
• Identifier:
  
  oai:repozytorium.uni.wroc.pl:141857  ; https://doi.org/10.34616/151504
• Language:
  
  eng
• Access rights:
  
  
  Attribution, Non-Commercial
   ;
  
  
  Uznanie autorstwa
• License:
  
  
  Creative Commons - Attribution, Non-Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0)
   ; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/deed.en  ;
  
  
  Creative Commons - Uznanie autorstwa, Użycie niekomercyjne (CC BY-NC 4.0)
   ; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/deed.pl
• Autor opisu:
  
  M.S.

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• Creation date: 2025-03-20
• Last modification date: 2025-04-01
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