標題:對腐敗感知上和審美上的理解作為哲學和社會批判的一種形式(1/2)

The target of this research is to provide a theoretical and practical examination ofthe way in which corruption is presented and experienced. In a special issue onvisual activism published in 2016, Julia Bryan-Wilson, Jennifer González andDominic Wilson inquire into the following problems: “How does the visual cultureof the recent and distant past play a critical role in the possibilities of seeingtoday?” And, “Who decides what should be seen, and what should remaininvisible?” With these problems in mind, the general goal of this investigation is todevelop an aesthetic approach to corruption and to examine the role ofperceiving corruption in the study of social institutions.The main question which will be addressed in this research is: How does aperceptual and aesthetic understanding of institutional corruption complement amoral, legal and social view of institutional corruption and is able to developnovel, of use terms and perspectives to examine the act of corruption? The firstpart of the research reflects on questions that properly belong to the aesthetics ofinstitutions by pondering on the intersection between institutional corruption, onthe one hand, and class and social justice, on the other. The second partintersects problems in philosophy of perception (the problems of perceptualjustification and perceptual learning) and problems in social ontology (theproblem of the kind of entity that social institutions are) by proposing two ways ofunderstanding the term ‘corruption.’The main point of the first part of the investigation is to develop a theoretical toolthat would allow to examine the kind of entity that corruption is, based on theaesthetic, phenomenal and epistemic property of photographic transparency. Themain point of the second part is to study the problem of how corruption isperceived by examining the opposition between a corrupt (non-ideal and nonoriginal)state or event and a non-corrupt one (the ideal and original state orevent). The general objective of this research is to move forward in the inquiryinto corrupt instances from a perceptual and aesthetic consideration.