This meditation intimately enmeshes philosophy, aesthetics, anthropology, poetics and photography... more This meditation intimately enmeshes philosophy, aesthetics, anthropology, poetics and photography, in order to decenter our ways of seeing. What do we “have” to “see” in what is offered to our gaze ? How can certain attitudes and practices observed among Wai-wai Amerindian populations inspire a different conception of seeing ? How can a few photographs document this conception ? How can untranslatable words feed this poetics ? This meditation is more interested in raising questions than in providing answers.
This meditation intimately enmeshes philosophy, aesthetics, anthropology, poetics and photography... more This meditation intimately enmeshes philosophy, aesthetics, anthropology, poetics and photography, in order to decenter our ways of seeing. What do we “have” to “see” in what is offered to our gaze ? How can certain attitudes and practices observed among Wai-wai Amerindian populations inspire a different conception of seeing ? How can a few photographs document this conception ? How can untranslatable words feed this poetics ? This meditation is more interested in raising questions than in providing answers.
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