Ocularcentrism
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- One of his most notable articles by Alan Dundes was called "Seeing is Believing" in which he indicated that Americans value the sense of sight more than the other senses.
- "As Roland Barthes points out in "Sade, Fourier, Loyola" modernity changed the hierarchy between sound and image, priviliging the latter over the former. 'Hearing is believing' became 'seeing is believing'. Before modernity, hearing came first; believing meant listening to the word of God: auditum verbi Dei, id est fides. --Surreal Documents via [1]
See also
- Ocularcentrism
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