Book, Glass eye: television and the state of exception of the image[LS]

Language: Brazilian Portuguese. Television and the state of exception of the image. In Glass Eye, Marcia goes beyond dissecting the problematization of the visual being. It addresses the formation of the viewer's subjectivity in times of annihilation of the subject's free and reflective figure. More than a critique of television, it is a demand for a policy balanced between lucidity and sensitivity. A work beyond theory, in tune with those who study, make and watch television. “The intention of showing what the biopolitically controlled gaze is is not just theoretical, but a sign of ethical behavior of the theory”, argues Márcia. Granddaughter of photography, daughter of cinema and radio, television is, in the sensible management system, a powerful mechanism and even the logic that controls the world of visual experience, defining it as televisual. Like an eviscerated eye, television is part of the evolutionary history of vision. Before being part of the media, before being a means of mass communication, television is a vision mechanism that was born in the time of technical images. Just as the arts of vision, from painting to cinema, were a self-conscious positioning of visual resources and their expression, television needs to be interpreted from the point of view of the history of vision. Communication sciences are dedicated to understanding television, but it is increasingly necessary to include it in the field of Visual Studies, understanding it in the context of aesthetic experience, bearing in mind that this connection with aesthetics determines what is political about it. . Glass Eye does just that. As Mônica Waldvogel says, it is a dive into the intermittent and uninterrupted, fragmented, fast and omnipresent spectacle of TV. No grudges or accusations. And with the authority of someone who philosophizes and also knows the fascination of television inside and out.