Piśmienność wizualna czy wizualność piśmienna [przeł. K. Charewicz]
Visual literacy or literary visualcy? [trans. K. Charewicz]

Summary/Abstract: Mitchell’s essay is a deconstruction of the expression of visual literacy and an account of its limits. It concerns the expression’s self-defeating paradox. Author provide a fair summary of the problems attendant on thinking about the words ‘visual’ and ‘literate’ together. Mitchell considers the difference between visual literacy, that ‘seeing is reading’, and literary visualcy, that ‘reading is seeing’. When we see, we are interpreting signs, making meaning, all of which we ascribe to the action of reading, ‘visual literacy’; therefore, we read and we read all that we see. Mitchell proposes that readers attend equally to ‘visualcy’, to ‘seeing’, to consider the innate sense of seeing (‘visualcy’) as possibly primary to the learned action of reading, ‘literacy’.

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