The Figural and Corruption

The work of Jean Francois Lyotard, a French thinker has brought the figural to the centre of critical attention. Lyotard teaches us that figural can be traced in an intertwined relation of the sayable and visible. When we read a text, we have to close our eyes to the visible alphabets and other markers to get to the sayable...

GREETINGS

There is an aesthetic ugliness.

But there is also an uglification that is constructed to please or delight a certain privileged group.

- Fr Victor Ferrao