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 […]
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Against Schopenhauer: Desire, Difference, Representation, History, and the Failure of Metaphysical Sovereignty
Arthur Schopenhauer’s metaphysics is built around one enormous compression. Beneath the plurality of appearances, beneath individual desire, bodily action, organic striving, conflict, reproduction, suffering, and nature itself, he places a single metaphysical principle: Will. The attraction of the system is obvious enough. A world that looks heterogeneous and difficult is gathered beneath one invariant. Hunger, […]