读图时代已经来临。这是感觉论的第二次变迁，标志着人类在感觉方式上向原始形态的某种回归。而西方哲学中一直有视觉中心的传统，读图时代的来临虽然在某种意义上继承了这一传统，但它们毕竟还是感觉论发展的不同阶段，它们之间仍然存在着明显的差异。对读图时代的感觉认知的把握，我们可以从现代性与后现代性之争、文本与图像之争以及大众文化与精英文化之争这三种比较性的视角展开。

The Era of Pictures is coming. This is the second flux of Sensationalism, which indicates a regression to the original form in the way of the human’s sense. Moreover, there was a tradition of Visionism in the western philosophy. Although the Era of Pictures inherits from the traditional Visionism within some extent, they share obvious differences in several aspects, because the Era of Pictures and the Visionism refer to different stages in the process of Sensationalism developing. We can comprehend the sensual cognition from three comparative aspects, which consist of the controversy between modernity and post-modernity, text expression and image expression, and Popular Culture and Elite Culture.