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Boris Johnson, Boston Ross and Beauty
The camera has changed the world. It has not “changed the world”, as in, created a material state-of-affairs, or had a physical impact upon physical objects. It has changed the world (as observed), in that it has changed the observer. The camera has, ironically, revealed to a point that is beyond repression, certain things about how we perceive. This is how the camera changed the world. Not by showing us the world, not by changing the world, and not by changing “how” we view the world — but by revealing to us, beyond a pleasant level of reasonable doubt, how we always-already did.
Fantasy and the interactivity of desire
There is no such thing as an attractive woman. There is no such thing as a “beautiful” woman. “What do you mean, ‘no woman is beautiful’, that sounds like you are just gay lmao”, you might say, nervously sweating and pulling on the neck of your shirt. Well, I’ll show you. I’m glad you asked.
Woman she achieves status of beauty, attractive, insofar as she falls into man’s preestablished category or schema, of a sexual fantasy. In practical interaction with her, in conversation or socializing, or especially in sexual intercourse, the individual woman always falls short of the “sexual ideal”. This is “fantasy”. A…
