CS251 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Panopticon, Biopower, Jacques Lacan
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To gaze is to enter into relational activity of looking. Theories of the gaze and spectatorship are theories of address, rather. Alienation: means always having to look at strangers (cid:1) New experiences of movement: trains, cars and landscape as cinema (cid:1) New experiences of space: distance, height and perspective (cid:1) We have become spectators of social life, the detached observers that have come to form the modern subject. The term spectatorship provides a more textured understanding of looking, where the practice is enacted in an, interactive, multimodal, and relational field (cid:1) (cid:1) Foucault"s expansion on jermy bentham"s concept of the panopticon. The gaze is not an individual"s act of looking rather, it situates the. Foucault"s understanding of discourse, by which he meant a group. Faucault also wrote influentially about how modern societies are. The object of the gaze is less powerful than the gazer (which can be an. Women are also objectified by the gaze (in art and advertising)
