visualism

The privileging of vision over other means of sensory perception.

Noun

  1. The privileging of vision over other means of sensory perception.
    • Yet, others have dismissed Fabian's visualism as a naïve critique rooted in the very processes he tries to undermine. For his critics, Fabian's analysis does not so much successfully critique the dominance of vision as...
    • […] Don Ihde's book analyzes the role of visualism in science, that is the trend to present diverse aspects of the world in a visual form. Don Ihde maintains that visualism was a cultural choice, historically...

Origin

From visual + -ism.