lhis phenomenon is further aggravated by the evol ution of a culture and, �wift.ly afterwards, a true CULT OF EXCESS over the course of the nineteenth century and, especially, the twentieth, with the acceleration of reality itself ending in the dawn of a new form of madness, Ia folie de voir. lh is entails having to see at all costs - to the detriment of hearing, as well as of handling, of touch , tactil i ty, a s wel l as o f con tact.
On this score, it's time for an anecdote, the one about Richard Wagner putting his hands over his girl friend, his lover, Malvida's eyes, while they were listening to Tristan and shouting at her: 'Stop looking so hard and listen! '
Ever since i ts Greco-Latin origins, i n fact, Western philosophy has been primarily a philosophy of vision, of the vario us kinds of light and the forms presented to searching eyes. lhat has produced today' s cult, this technocult of the speed of ligh t and of the waves that convey information that has now gone MEGALOSCOPIC.
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