Hegemonia oka?
The hegemony of an eye?

Summary/Abstract: The article contains a selection of ideas about the vision’s position in the Western Europe culture. The author aims to show historical process of building trust to this sensor and compare them with the nowadays condition. Making use of examples from different times demonstrates human approach to the hierarchy of senses. It is important to mention that creating a strict line which can show the moment of change is impossible, because of universality which we can connect with the vision, and also because it is difficult to determine the moment of changing human's ways of understanding and using receivers. The article’s intention is simply to sketch out the issue and reflection on vision’s status now. First section shows the historical reasons of hegemony of vision related to thoughts of philosophers and associated with breakthrough inventions. However, the second part of the text, concentrated on modern times, is based on example of contemporary pair of artists - Shusaku Arakawa and Madeline Gins, whose work, Reversible Destiny, raises a subject of inequalities in perception by senses.

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