modern society's orientation towards surveying and dominating objects rests not so much on its supposed favouring of vision, but rather on a certain narrow conception of thought (..) “what we see is inseparable from how we see, and how we see is always a function of the practical activity in which we are engaged”. (..) there is no such thing as seeing in singular, but rather an indefinite number of ways of seeing, all of which depend on the type of practical relationship that we establish with things and people around us.

//Willerslev, R. 2006. ‘To have the world at a distance’