Ocularcentrismo e a imagem dialética da leitura em silêncio

Abstract

Based on the critical theory, the objective of the dissertation is to outline the dialectical image of the silent reading. Although silence is part of a questioning about social communication, silent reading is also a visual reading, whose modern institutional orientation inculcates the need to train an enlightened public according to the higher speed. As part of the historical movement of the enlightenment, the affirmation of the liberal subject of knowledge is also the disposition of a rational thought that instrumentalizes bodies, separating their senses and establishing an overvaluation of the visual sense as appropriate for the encounter with the truth. Such legitimization of knowledge focuses on an ocularcentrism and on the reproduction of the analysis characteristics of the traditional theory: eternity of the truth, contemplative interiority and literality of visual images. In this sense, although arising from the monastic culture, in the social division of capitalist production time, the silent reading becomes indispensable for the individualization of knowledge production.