Perception A necessary precondition for individuals in a somatocentric system is the privileging of sight over other senses in perceiving reality. Using vision as the primary sense for constructing reality may cause one to miss complex and hidden nuances of existence, limiting perception.Coetzee, Pieter Hendrik, Race and Gender, 28 September 2001. A comparison of sight and hearing shows that sight is mono-directional and exclusive, while sound is proximate, fluid, and inclusive.Lowe, David - quoted by both Oyewumi and Coetzee - I cannot find the original source
Perception A necessary precondition for individuals in a somatocentric system is the privileging of sight over other senses in perceiving reality. Using vision as the primary sense for constructing reality may cause one to miss complex and hidden nuances of existence, limiting perception.Coetzee, Pieter Hendrik, Race and Gender, 28 September 2001. A comparison of sight and hearing shows that sight is mono-directional and exclusive, while sound is proximate, fluid, and inclusive.Lowe, David : History of Bourgeois Perception. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982, pp. 7
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- quoted by both Oyewumi and Coetzee - I cannot find the original source
: History of Bourgeois Perception. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982, pp. 7