Elementos de los estudios visuales: un análisis crítico de la mirada desde el esencialismo visual a los regímenes escópicos

The research analyzes this phenomenon of visual culture caused by technological innovations and scientific advances, ideological currents of thought, and the influence particular to the cultural and philosophical heritage of the past. Knowledge or comprehension of the visual progresses from hermeneutics to critical theory, in search of understanding through interdisciplinarity (which includes traditional disciplines such as art theory, history of art and aesthetics). Among the results, the authors define the most important concepts visual studies; namely, visual culture, visual objects, visual essentialism and scopic regimes. The article offers an innovative view by revealing the rules established through scopic regimes and what characterizes a particular way of contemplating the world (a certain way of looking at things) based on the different ways of life of its actors.