Long considered "the noblest of the senses," Vision has increasingly come under critical scrutiny by a wide range of thinkers who question its dominance in Western culture.
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They have also criticized its supposed complicity with political and social oppression through the promulgation of spectacle and surveillance.
These critics of vision, especially prominent in twentieth-century France, have challenged its allegedly superior capacity to provide access to the world.
Long considered "the noblest of the senses," Vision has increasingly come under critical scrutiny by a wide range of thinkers who question its dominance in Western culture