Definition of World Blind

What is World Blind?

Not able to see that things are always of a world.

Being world blind is most often a condition of innovation: in making something radically new it is very difficult to see that it is the harbinger of a totally new world (paradigm).

Being world blind is only a problem if one cannot transition out of it to sensing the novel world/paradigm. Most often innovators are too close to their innovation to sense the world that they are ushering into being.

Your observations undermine the possibility of your worldview, but you cannot see it because your worldview is so strong.

Another Way to Think About World Blindness?

The normal and general condition of being embedded in one's historical collective mode of being alive (a worlding) such that one cannot perceive it as a world and not the World.  It is the quality of emergent direct experience that, in everyday life, it is simply experienced as "reality," as the way things are. 

Worldblindness is also an aspect of everyday creative practices where one does not sense that what one is making is more than a solution to an existing problem, but rather it opens up the potentiality of qualitatively novel ways of being alive  (e.g., the smartphone was designed to simply be a better phone).

There is a danger when worldblindness is conjoined  to a set of practices that involves a World-Denying logic. This form of active worldblindness is a quality of modern Western universalism: a world that not only cannot see it too is a historically contingent worlding, but actively explains other worlds away in concrete practices of transformative erasure. 

Note: Opposite - Data blind.

See also: Ontological Politics