
What is Seduction? | Jean Baudrillard | Keyword
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The Distinction Between the Masculine and the Feminine
Beuliard says we need to maintain some degree of this rigidity, this universality, this kind of truth in order to always problematize truth. But ha that truth always be disturbed and unsettled at the same time. Always problematizing that realm of appearance and superficiality, opening it up to mutation and change and development. We're working here within a gender binary, of course, reductively. To submit people to their biology is limit that possibility. It is, in a sense, to limit that possibility of seduction that serves as the backdrop for all possible change and mutation. So what we would see then is just a submission to a code that determines and regulates
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