What if the question “What is the female gaze?” begins from the wrong assumption? The conventional answer treats sexual difference symmetrically. Men look at women; therefore women must possess an equivalent gaze directed back toward men. Masculine desire becomes one arrow, feminine desire another arrow pointing in the opposite direction. Guys Gaze. Woman Want. begins […]
Category: Mind & Body
It Was Never All You: A Recursive Relational Ontology of the Self
The easiest metaphysical revelation is: “Everything is One.” The slightly more narcissistic version is: “It was all me.” Both feel profound because they collapse a bewildering multiplicity into a single answer. But the price of that answer is enormous. If the Other is merely you in disguise, then there is no genuine encounter. If every […]
A Goal Is Not Yet a Gaze
A compressed summary of the argument Word Count: 15,676 A Goal Is Not Yet a Gaze: A Relational Ontology of Body, Gaze, and World begins from a disagreement with Michael Levin, but the disagreement is not really the subject. Levin supplies the pressure. Topofantology supplies the architecture. Levin’s work matters because it makes an old […]