visualism
The privileging of vision over other means of sensory perception.
Noun
- 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.