Visibility, Visual Awareness, and Philosophy

Abstract

The article aims to explore how the philosophical approach to problematising visuality interacts with its pre-philosophical meanings and cultural roles, revealing that the significance of this confrontation is evolving into a completely new perspective today. Currently, the discursive and non-discursive aspects of this confrontation are shaped by technological changes in visuality. The challenge that technology poses to visuality is twofold – it questions our philosophical beliefs and also disrupts everyday practices rooted in traditional culture. Therefore, technology is a difficult partner for both philosophy and daily life practices. It challenges philosophy by introducing questions and problems that are often unfamiliar or unrecognised, and it complicates the efforts of practitioners who still struggle to adapt technical tools to their nearly timeless routines.