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Synestezja – wyzwanie dla kultury wzrokocentrycznej
Synaesthesia: challenging the vision-obsessed culture

Author(s): Zuzanna Kozłowska
Subject(s): Media studies
Published by: Fundacja Pro Scientia Publica
Keywords: synaesthesia; ocularcentrism; antiocularcentrism; visual culture; somatic poetics; corporeality

Summary/Abstract: Once again contemporary culture, regardless of the XXth century att empts to abolish Bergson’s “tyranny of the eye”, falls victim of the fetishism of the sight. The purpose of this paper is to portray synaesthesia as an antiocularcentric cultural device, as well as to indicate various cinematographic, architectural, sports, artistic, chronometric and even educational synaesthetic XXIst century cultural experiences which defy the ocularcentric vision of the world.

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 225-231
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Polish