Sight displaces touch as the dominant sense under generalized abstraction

Evidence

When the real world is transformed into mere images, mere images become real beings—dynamic figments that provide the direct motivations for a hypnotic behavior. Since the spectacle’s job is to use various specialized mediations in order to show us a world that can no longer be directly grasped, it naturally elevates the sense of sight to the special preeminence once occupied by touch: the most abstract and easily deceived sense is the most readily adaptable to the generalized abstraction of present-day society. — Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle, 29

Categorization

• XREF: Cuts against McLuhan-style celebrations of visual media as extensions; here the visual is the most easily deceived sense.