Author's Note: In order to appreciate the crucial subtleties of this chapter, a certain amount of background is in order.
Donna Haraway, professor of the History of Consciousness at Santa Cruz, has written and lectured extensively on the ways in which the object of view or gaze is affected by the technologies of view or gaze. As it pertains to a subject like science, for example, knowledge produced via "scientific" experimentation or observation is not only indelibly imprinted by the technologies used to produce that knowledge, that knowledge is only "true" in context of those same technologies.
To that end, creating a technology of gaze in order to examine specific knowledge allows a certain type of understanding based upon complete recognition of the context of knowing. Absurdist drama, it might be argued, is one such type of purpose-driven technology of gaze. By creating an intentionally ridiculous and overly exaggerated technology of gaze, the object of the gaze can be examined in a blatantly visible and knowable context, allowing the close and novel examination of themes ranging from gender, race, and sexuality relationships to political satire and its relationship to the social unconscious.
Try to keep up.
Serena sighed and adjusted her large leather and gold belt, into which was set the silver crystal. Rei murmured and licked the side of her lover's knee.
"Now, we must wait for the giant aliens," Serena mumbled, listlessly.
"Hentai, hentai, hentai," Rei replied, smouldering at the reclining wrestler above her.
"Ami's dead. Again…Lita used that hold with her thighs and her elbows…told her not to…Ami always chokes…and…"
Rei busied herself making certain Serena did not speak again as the mist rolled between the gently-moving beads in the doorway.
In another place, starlight glinted off the dull metallic glaze of an erector set.
"Keep them dead, keep them dim, keep them disowned…"
And Ami turned her head and coughed.
THE END... Or is it?
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