Read this aloud. Blindness is not an essentialist binary of dark and light, but instead announces the complexity of non-normative vision: a dissolution of boundaries or an agglomeration, an intensity of contrast or a dissipation, perpetual shimmering or ultramassive stars brought to intimate orbit, nebulae, clouds of dust and gas, darkness sculpting in fragments, peripheral or central shrouding, a yellow cast, a gray cast, a favoring of high key blue, interior vision, forehead sight. See, then, that blindness does not enforce an absence of vision, but makes tangible the limits of visual cognition, and calls to attention the plurality of perspectives and refracted observations, the conspiracy of visual stability, the pervasiveness of 20/20 conformity. Blindness offers a radicality (finally, finally!) to agitate the ocular-centric norms that insist upon our artistic and curatorial practices, upon our exhibition making, upon our bodies, upon our relationships, despite the abundant weight of philosophical critique. Blindness retrieves beholding and valorizes blundering. Through touch and intersensory translations, blindness may disturb systems of valuation and conventions of authorship, but in so doing, blindness acknowledges the inevitability of shifts in materiality, in meaning, in what matters, in form, over lifetimes. Expanding our horizons beyond the 20/20, we become attuned to the micro and the macro, to exophiles and extraterrestrials, to perceptual systems we cannot understand or even imagine yet. A methodology for our political time indeed, through blindness, we can handle ephemerality and difference, we can listen to variations in the barely visible and the precarious, and yes, yes, we can navigate the invisible, the obscured, the concealed.

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失明的根本潜力

大声读这个。失明不是黑暗和光明的本质主义双星，而是宣布了非规范视觉的复杂性：边界的溶解或聚集，强烈的对比或消散，永久闪烁或超大质量的恒星被带到亲密轨道，星云，尘埃和气体的云团，碎片化的黑暗雕刻，外围或中央的笼罩，黄色，灰色，偏爱高调的蓝色，内部视觉，前额视线。那么，请看，失明并不强制没有视力，而是使视觉认知的极限变得有形，并引起人们注意视角和折射观察的多元化、视觉稳定性的阴谋、20/20 一致性的普遍性。盲目提供了激进（终于，终于！) 鼓动以视觉为中心的规范，这些规范坚持我们的艺术和策展实践、我们的展览制作、我们的身体、我们的关系，尽管哲学批评很重要。失明能恢复凝视，并为失误加分。通过触觉和互感翻译，失明可能会扰乱估价系统和作者的惯例，但在这样做时，失明承认了物质、意义、重要的事物、形式和一生的转变是不可避免的。将我们的视野扩展到 20/20 之后，我们开始适应微观和宏观，适应外来者和外星人，适应我们还无法理解甚至无法想象的感知系统。我们的政治时代确实是一种方法论，通过盲目，我们可以处理短暂和差异，