Politics of Vision Seeing in the Work of Gilles Deleuze

Abstract

This article maps and discusses the theme of seeing (vidência) in Gilles Deleuze’s work, contrasting it with common sensori-motor perception. It argues that Deleuze’s philosophy is driven by an act of vision that disrupts perceptual clichés to reveal the intolerable and open up new possibilities for life and thought. The figure of the visionary, initially associated with exceptional individuals, becomes accessible to anyone through the pedagogy of perception developed in Deleuze’s cinema studies. Breaking the sensori-motor scheme redefines the political problem, shifting it from voluntarism to an ethics of resistance and creation. In a contemporary world saturated with informational clichés, seeing is reaffirmed as a political weapon capable of discerning new possibilities.