Projektnummer

0057696

Zusammenfassung

Humans are visible. They are visible in virtue of their embodied nature and their up-right carriage. In a more pregnant sense, they are visible as seeing beings and as social persons. Seeing and being seen constitute the sphere of human visibility and produce various types of gazes in which perception and recognition overlap. Among the different forms of visibility, a physical and a social one can be distinguished as very basic modes. Humans are characterised by their physical visibility as any other object that has at least one opaque layer. In this mode of visibility, humans are perc...