EKPOMA REVIEW

Is it possible to discuss perception from the object perspective? The much that has been recounted about perception has actually centred on the subject experience and I fear that such rather one-sided introspection may not offer a satisfactory view in the discourse of perception. So, the perennial problem of perception is not that we perceive differently or that we are trapped in an endless struggle of justifying knowledge claims through perception, but that proponents of the theory of perception are often guilty of silencing the vociferous perspective of the objects of perception. My concern, therefore, is how to echo the perspective of the object of perception in such a way that its relevance in the discourse of perception is not quietened. Again, there is an attempt to discover if the objects of perception speak and if it does why the discordance interpretation of what otherwise is unanimous. Finally, I conclude that there are linguistic aspects to the disconnection between the subject and the object of perception.

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