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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Ocularcentrism"”.
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Phenomenology and Blindness: Merleau-Ponty, Levinas, and an Alternative Metaphysical Vision
… of examples. As a blind reader I found that such ocularcentrism prevented me from understanding their claims. This made me wonder whether ocularcentric biases might be leading them to unbalanced or invalid arguments and world-views. The questions raised are: Can there be philosophy that is not …
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Sight and Knowledge Disconnected: The Epistemology of the Visual and the Ideological Gaze in the Novels of E. M. Forster and Virginia Woolf
… to see it as a response to the crisis of Western ocularcentrism. First taking up E. M. Forster as a main figure and later shifting its point of focus to Virginia Woolf and finally to a contemporary author Zadie Smith, this dissertation examines how literature can respond when our long-standing …
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Surface tension: permeability, the body, and installation
… paradigm is suggested as parallel to the rise of ocularcentrism. Whilst acknowledging the strengths of various mediums, attention is called to the capacity of static, 2D media to emphasize ocularcentric disembodiment. In contrast, installation is explored as a medium that demonstrates a porous …
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Photography and the body in the nineteenth century
… premise of the dissertation is that Cartesian ocularcentrism and the modes of representation and technologies of sight it legitimized have institutionalized a disembodied gaze and a transcendental subjectivity which not only neglects the embodied nature of existence but subverts it. In this …