
bell hooks’ ”The Oppositional Gaze: Black Female Spectatorship”
Theory & Philosophy
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Looking Is a Form of Violence
No power or no base of knowledge can be readily established without a necessary antagonism, or point of antithesis, or an opposite that it can compare itself to in order to attain its dominant status. In fuco's work, there there is always room for a counter or resistance to dominant forms of power or of knowledge making. And we get th as well in the work of franz fina, who i've covered on this channel,. If you want to go and check out all those texts that i've covered, they're available online at: http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/29/science-and-culture/frina-hooks-look
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