Vaizdiškumas: kultūros sąveikos
Editorial - Visuality: Cultural Interactions

Summary/Abstract: Visuality is a phenomenon inseparable from culture: on the one side, culture emerges in a visual way, on the other side, culture is oriented visually. This visual orientation is both an advantage and a disadvantage. Visual experience not only expands the horizon of understanding, but also provides thinking with the visual analogies while it has been directed to the colours of the life-world. However, the visual stamps could be a limitation of thinking and a barrier of existence while we are unable to overcome the ocularcentrism of our culture as a certain way of seeing that should not be closed in a cave, to rephrase Plato. The way of seeing to be interpreted as a hermeneutic horizon is visual inevitably. As such, it is inseparable from our existential approaches; as a result, it needs a constant exit beyond the visual limits. Therefore, the way of seeing, the approach to thinking and technē of life composing our existential circle also allow overcoming each level of this cultural phenomenon.

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