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Read My Desire, Pt. 1: Gaze and Excess

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Utilitarianism and the Panoptic Eye

In the first chapter, she talks about how things never just want what they think that they want. She links utilitarianism with a fantasy which then ends up becoming colonial because you want to extend the greatest good to the greatest number. What's at work in that is a certain fantasy that Clare and Bo's obsession with the non useful clothing is when it gets revealed. The panoptic gaze is pursuing what resists that look, right? So, yeah, I think that's her. That's really the driving thread of this book.

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