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Whether in epistemological perspective (ratio of ego to the environment), in social-philosophical point of view (ego Age), or psychoanalytically oriented questions (ego self) - our world relationships are explained mainly in theverba Vivendi .
includes a critique of vision"(Ralf Konersmann)
that triggers surveillance always ambivalent feelings -. I feel threatened or protected from the eyes of the cameras? - Will it understandable as an extension of cultural and historical tradition of the ambiguity of the visible. In the contradictory feelings that are able to trigger the lenses pointed at us, is still the inner conflict of man to guess the myth that the petrifying,
feared the evil eye and apotropaic Medusa, apotropaic eye warm. Has always been the man to unmask the Others look ashamed, has sought to avoid excessively tested insight has changed in the staring eye felt uncomfortable. On the other hand, we look for the loving, protective, sheltering the view. If we are primarily in the identification of subjects with and through the eyes of another, this subject will genesis in the middle of this stress field rather than a konfliktuösen logic of the gaze. This exposure arises, what has been called Hartmut Böhme the "panoptic conscience," namely"which I delivered Geheimnislosigkeit the front of the control and criminal view of the higher (inner) morality instance. The healing view, the correspondence is searched from the beginning of the penetrating View, which can not escape it. The being looked at-is an extremely precarious original experience of the people. It reveals a longing and fear that arise from the same root: namely, that in the eyes of others I am identified as the person I am in it myself. This can be happiness and horror. For it is, for good or evil, the look of the other a power which I am subject "(Boehme) Whether we are able to act subject or subjected
subiectum. Both are given to us in the eye of the other. From here one can predict that the attempts to play down the camera eye asfriendly eye in the sky , never to an end will arrive. That would not even be in the lawyer s sense of the visual inspection - it is exactly this principle undecidability
whether the camera's eye a frightening or comforting instance, which accounts for its effectiveness.We may not know
, with each decision in one direction or the other side, the system would run out of balance: too kindly face would not be more daunting, too dark would not let the liberal self-understanding of democratic societies agree . This dichotomy does not spare even the eye itself: once the sole protagonist of the panoptic, it is now in the Techniques, the iris recognition itself to the monitored object. The eye is an agent of the hazard, but also themselves at risk:"Seeing is torn between the delivery to the world of images, the desire to drag it into itself, and the right to monitor and control the objects and living conditions and it is caught in a fine line between devotion and resolution, assertion and domination, both of which do not lead to success "(Deborah Weber-Wulff)
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