Живо тяло и артефактични структури на светлината
A Living Body and Artificial Structures of Light

Summary/Abstract: The essay is an attempt in analysing a specific situation — the situation of impenetrable dark. The main question I put is: how is the typical experience being reproduced in the situation of absolute darkness (viewed as a radically untypical situation); then, when the visual sense is turned off. That interest is not an occasional one; the subject matter is not randomly chosen. The impenetrable dark is also a theoretical construction that could enable us to go "behind the back" of everyday visual experience. Which are the obstacles I encounter in my attempt to repeat the situation as an enlightened one, to normalise it? How are those obstacles coded on the one hand in the world around me, but on the other hand into my (unseeing) body? The second paragraph points some possibilities to investigate the social structures of power in the perspective of light-dark opposition.

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