This paper aims to understand if it is possible to speak of a non-anthropocentric visuality. The progressive and continuous increase of information production at a global level has led us to witness a specific set of visual information that, we argue, can be considered to be decentered from anthropocentric ocular optics. If we are in fact able to speak of a non-anthropocentric visuality, as this paper strongly suggests, this means that such concept is distinct from a non-human vi- suality, and that this scopic regime allows for other forms of sensing that extend beyond human sensory capacities. If we subscribe to this perspective, import- ant consequences arise, specifically concerning the relation between visual in- formation and governance. This analysis reinforces the need to further examine and carefully look at visual information produced outside of ocularcentrism, and its implications for the knowledge that supports itself on it.
This paper contends in favor of an emergence and foreshadowing of a new dialectic model, detached from preexisting narrative constructions, at the core of contemporary artistic practices. In order to confirm it as such, this paper will analyze the production of two artists: Juliana Huxtable and DeForrest Brown Jr. The methodology applied will be linked to the analysis of four specific works: the poem and performance “THERE ARE CERTAIN FACTS THAT CAN NOT BE DISPUTED” from Juliana Huxtable and the multidisciplinary proposal Outwardly Coiling Context Collapse and the audio-textual articulation of Absent Personae from DeForrest Brown. Jr.. In the case of the artists here presented, we will be able to conclude that this foreshadowing is correlated with the systematic marginalization of the ethnic and racial legacy, coupled with the re-invention of a new socio-cultural space, embedded with meaning.
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