Why Theory

Read My Desire, Pt. 1: Gaze and Excess

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Jun 13, 2021
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INSIGHT

Screen as Mirror vs. Mirror as Screen

  • Film theory wrongly views the screen as a mirror, but Lacan saw the mirror as a screen.
  • The screen shields the gaze, disrupting the viewer's mastery and revealing desire.
INSIGHT

Gaze, Mastery, and Desire

  • Copjec targets the idea that the gaze equals mastery and power.
  • Desire emerges in power gaps, not as its manifestation.
INSIGHT

Power-Knowledge Tautology

  • The power-knowledge dyad in Foucault is a tautology.
  • If power produces knowledge and knowledge produces power, it becomes all cause and all effect.
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