Abstract
Marx raised the issue of "the historicization of senses", arguing that the fundamental feature to distinguish humans from animals is that humans can use their techniques to foresee certain types of things in the future which are not given by the nature but are created by humans. However, issues such as the relationships between technology and the body, between technology and labor, and between technology and the ways of human-sensing invite further investigation. Chinese artistic experience enables us to separate "historicization of senses" from "technologization of senses" under new historical conditions, and then we may reflect on the globalization and homogenization of "ways of seeing" brought by technologization, and further reflect on our loss of abilities to understand the existential situation and our failure to imagine a possible life.
First Page
39
Last Page
48
Recommended Citation
Liu, Tairan. 2019. "Ways of Seeing: Historicization, Technologization and Chinese Artistic Experience." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 39, (4): pp.39-48. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol39/iss4/21
