L´oeil absolu et le monde sans limite / The universal eye and a limitless world

author: Gérard Wajcman, Département de Psychanalyse, Université Paris 8
published: Feb. 1, 2010,   recorded: January 2010,   views: 9026
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L´oeil absolu et le monde sans limite

Voir est une arme du pouvoir. Depuis la vidéosurveillance jusqu’aux balayages satellitaires de la planète, en passant par l’imagerie médicale et la télé-réalité, d’innombrables dispositifs s’acharnent à nous rendre intégralement visibles et transparents. On sait que sortir faire ses courses à Londres aujourd’hui, c’est être filmé plus de trois cents fois. La science et la technique ont bricolé un dieu omnivoyant électronique, un nouvel Argos doté de millions d’yeux qui ne dorment jamais. Plus que dans une civilisation de l’image, nous sommes désormais dans une civilisation du regard. On surveillait jadis les criminels, aujourd’hui on surveille surtout les innocents. Pour la politique sécuritaire, nous sommes tous des dommages collatéraux. Mais au-delà de la surveillance, ce regard global infiltre aujourd’hui tous les domaines de nos vies, de la naissance à la mort. La transparence n’est pas qu’une affaire sociale, elle vise aussi le privé de nos maisons et l’intérieur de nos corps, dissolvant chaque jour un peu plus l’espace de l’intime et du secret. Dans une langue brillante, documentée et très accessible, Gérard Wajcman explore et questionne cette idéologie de l’hypervisible.


The universal eye and a limitless world

The lecture focuses primarily on contemporary or hyper-modern society of control, on the questions of gaze and image. If the advent of modernity presupposed full mastery of the world and events, if it announced the triumph of progress and enlightenment, the exact opposite happened: the unexpected fulfilled itself as the predominant feature of the 21st century. Gérard Wajcman gives numerous examples: from art and cinema to recent plane crashes and the modern technology of detection, all of them illuminating the ideology of the Completely Visible. One of the central problems is exactly the question of images: Do we live in a society of images? Or have we entered into the society of the gaze? There is an excess of images, but the gaze reveals itself as the true problem: there are not enough eyes. Any absence of image becomes intolerable. If one cannot prevent the unexpected, if one cannot avoid accidents, one can at least try to retain the power to see, namely the power to gaze at the unexpected.


Univerzalno oko in svet brez meje

Predavanje je osredotočeno na sodobno, t.j. hipermoderno družbo nazdora, na vprašanje pogleda in podobe. Če je nastop moderne dobe predpostavil obvladovanje sveta in dogodkov, če je zmagoslavje napredka in razvetljenstva, pa se je v resnici izpolnilo prav nasprotno: izpolnilo se je nepredvideno, in sicer kot prevladujoča poteza 21. stoletja. Gérard Wajcman ponudi različne primere: od likovne in filmske umetnosti do nedavnih letalskih nesreč in sodobne tehnologije detektiranja, ki osvetljujejo ideologijo V Celoti Vidnega. Eden ključnih problemov je prav vprašanje podob: ali živimo v civilizaciji podobe? Ali pa smo vstopili v civilizacijo pogleda? Podob je na pretek, kot problem pa se izkaže prav pogled: pogledov je premalo. Kakršno koli umanjkanje podobe postane nevzdržno. Če se nepredvidenega ne more preprečiti, če se nesreči ne da ogniti, se skuša zadržati vsaj moč videti, moč gledati nepredvideno.

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