Meanings
- uncountableThe privileging of vision over other means of sensory perception.
[…] Don Ihde's book analyzes the role of visualism in science, that is the trend to present diverse aspects of the world in a visual form. Don Ihde maintains that visualism was a cultural choice, historically reinforcing itself […]
2014, Andrzej Piotr Wierzbicki, Technen: Elements of Recent History of Information Technologies with Epistemological Conclusions1 more example
Yet, others have dismissed Fabian's visualism as a naïve critique rooted in the very processes he tries to undermine. For his critics, Fabian's analysis does not so much successfully critique the dominance of vision as grant other senses the dominating power he seeks to take away from vision […]
2013, James Elkins, Theorizing Visual Studies: Writing Through the Discipline, page 279
Origin
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visualism. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/visualism
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