Fleckenstein

"Testifying: Seeing and Saying in World Making"

not only reflects by selecting, organizing, and deflecting, but also structures and replicated power within a culture.
membership in a culture is determined by one's ability to conforming to this and the community determines the scopic regime

what you see is reality
a form of scopic regime
a dualism of body and mind

constructed from both word and image

rhetoric
scopic regimes
image

-persuades our realities into existence (language creates the reality that we perceive)
-testifies to community members that the world is configured in one way and nnot another
-welds those members into a community

-consist of visual conventions that determine how and what we see (terministic screens)
-concerns the relationship btwn the gazer and the object
-C.P.

-the result of an active process of organizing the chaos of stimuli
-no image remains static

-material rhetorics, images, and scopic regimes aquire meaning through their mutual dependence on the other
-a community is crafted out of its habits of speaking and its habits of seeing

emergence, appropriation, resistance

the process by which a perception, articulation, or shared vision evolves

a process bu which a community takes as its own a perception, articulation, or shared vision making it a part of its taken-for-granted reality

the process by which a segment of a community posits alternative perceptions