摘要：It may be said, quite uncontroversially, that we living in an “ocularcentric” culture, where seeing is privileged above all the other senses. To see is never neutral; it is not a mere passive apprehension of the visual, rather it is simultaneously a projection of the eye’s sphere of influence and an assimilation of the world in accordance to its framed narrative. Ocularcentrism is the belief that vision, over all the other senses, is the best and most reliable mean for making sense of the world. What we must understand by this, is not the privileging of a particular way to observe the world, but the privileging of language, the valorization of a learned code, of the memorization of a standardized form, that has supplanted the need to truly observe. It is my contention that our ocularcentric impulses are motivated by a more general attempt to gain mastery over life and death. What is prescribed by the ocularcentric doctrines is not an identification with the living, or the changes inherent to the living world, but with a form that exhibits the semblance of a permanence that could outlast the finitude of the living world. Ocularcentrism itself is a mean of coping with such anxieties. Our identification with ocularcentrism is quite possibly the most pronounced feature in the domination of life. To identify with the eye, is to identify with distance and separation inherent in the least intimate of our senses. In a culture that is ocularcentric, what is sacrificed is intimacy.
关键词：Continental Philosophy; Phenomenology; Feminist Phenomenology;Ocularcentrism; Immunization; Death; Hannah Arendt; Georges Bataille; Luce Irigaray; Roberto Esposito
