
In Defence of the ‘Male Gaze’
Un-tethered from the ‘male gaze,’ female beauty standards go the way of postmodern pastiche.
Un-tethered from the ‘male gaze,’ female beauty standards go the way of postmodern pastiche.
In his book The Disappearance of Rituals, Korean-German philosopher Byun-Chul Han presents a genealogy of the disappearance of rituals and its catastrophic effects on society.
There is a macabre precedent in the bizarre accounts, world over, of people dancing themselves to death: an analogue to the painful hedonism of post-modernity.