
"(...) It is no longer a question of killing, of devouring or seducing the Other, of facing him, of competing with him, of loving or hating the Other. It is first of all a matter of producing the Other. The Other is no longer an object of passion but an object of production. Maybe it is because the Other, in his radical otherness [alterite], or in his irreducible singularity, has become dangerous or unbearable. And so, we have to conjure up his seduction (...)"
Jean Baudrillard, in Plastic Surgery For The Other, 1994.
Também ando a ler um livro sobre Plastic Surgery mas é um romance... ;-)
Afixado por: em fevereiro 2, 2006 08:55 AM