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Gaze, Mastery, and Desire
- Copjec targets the idea that the gaze equals mastery and power.
- Desire emerges in power gaps, not as its manifestation.
Power-Knowledge Tautology
- The power-knowledge dyad in Foucault is a tautology.
- If power produces knowledge and knowledge produces power, it becomes all cause and all effect.
Žižek on Surveillance
- Slavoj Žižek wasn't bothered by surveillance, saying secret services reading his theory would be "like giving Hegel's logic to a cow."
- This reflects their inability to read desire.