The eye acquires its form by submitting to what it perceives

Evidence

Finally, what distinguished the realism of the model from the reality it claimed to represent was that this central point had an occupant, the figure on the viewing platform. The representation of reality was always an exhibit set up for an observer in its midst, an observing gaze surrounded and set apart by the exhibition’s careful order. If the dazzling displays of the exhibition could evoke some larger historical and political reality, it was because they were arranged to demand this isolated gaze. The more the exhibit drew in and encircled the visitor, the more the gaze was set apart from it, as the mind is set apart from the material world it observes. — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 70 (#expands, via linked claim)

Generally, about all perception, we can say that a sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold; what produces the impression is a signet of bronze or gold, but not qua bronze or gold: in a similar way the sense is affected by what is coloured or flavoured or sounding not in so far as each is what it is, but in so far as it is of such and such a sort and according to its form. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 433 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The observing gaze is constituted by being set apart from its object — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 70; Sense perception receives forms of things without their matter — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 433; Perception is an active process of filtering and organizing, not passive reception (+2 more)

Related

• The observing gaze is constituted by being set apart from its object (similarity 0.84)
• Sense perception receives forms of things without their matter (similarity 0.80)
• An object’s being shifts between use and detached observation. (similarity 0.80)
• An organ acquires form by submitting to and binding its stimulus (similarity 0.79)
• Modern observers grasp the world as a representation rather than as lived reality (similarity 0.78)
• Sensation requires an object other than the sense acting on it (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Perception is an active process of filtering and organizing, not passive reception #contradicts (0.88)
• The observing gaze is constituted by being set apart from its object #expands (0.85) — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 70
• Sense perception receives forms of things without their matter #expands (0.82) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 433
• Perception requires shared substance between perceiver and perceived. #expands (0.75) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 743