Seeing Beyond: The Opacity of the Screen, of Error, and of the Non-Human

Abstract

The text examines the fruitfulness of another insight, achievable
through opacity. Western culture has cultivated, for a endless time,
the idea that build up one’s gaze means achieving a clearer vision, or
rather, restoring an enlarged experience of what has been highlighted.
Today’s clarity impacts every area of human life and art. Actually, it is
precisely the opposite, the obstuction to vision, that generates vision
itself. Within transparency, in fact, there is an opacity that allows us
to see, even to see clearly. The text analyses opacity in the form of a
window, a screen, an error and the non–human, revealing its ambiguity
and duplicity: on the one hand showing and on the other concealing.
This dualism makes opacity the privileged vehicle of vision.