Roman Viaduct Statues
example · architecture: Roman viaducts ·
retold in 4 talks
Ancient Roman viaducts have small statues and reliefs on top, invisible to human gaze, which Žižek cites as another example of the 'virtual gaze' structure in art and sexuality.
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As told 3
“They have small statues and reliefs also on the top invisible to human gaze.”
“you have even on the top statues, small statues and so on, which are so placed that nobody, no real person can ever see them”
“ancient Roman viaducts. They have small statues and reliefs also on the top, invisible to human gaze.”
What it carries
one story, many jobs: the ideas this anecdote is deployed to argue, one tally mark per use (an idea page shows the same relation from the other end, as its shelf of stories)
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Louis Aragon2Damir Arsenijević2Laurent de Sutter2Germaine Greer2Simone de Beauvoir2Pablo Picasso2Daniel Cohn-Bendit2Michelle Pfeiffer1
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Ancient Roman viaducts have small statues and reliefs on top, invisible to human gaze, which Žižek cites as another example of the 'virtual gaze' structure in art and sexuality., illustrating virtual gaze
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Small statues placed on top of Roman viaducts where no human can see them, created for an 'impossible' divine or non-existent gaze., illustrating fantasmatic, non-existent, impossible gaze
Ancient Roman viaducts have small statues and reliefs at the top, invisible to any human gaze, further evidence that humans naturally produce for an imagined, virtual observer., illustrating virtual gaze,sexuality is never immediate