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disruption between the signifier and the signified what drops out in the gap between the signifier and the signified privileged view The clinical gaze, for example, dematerializes language. It has the paradoxical ability to "hear a language" as soon as it "perceives a spectacle", but this language oney resides in a natural syntax of things. This is a pure empiricism where the eye extracts the meaning of tahings seemingly without the mediation of signs. Diseasaes have theire own alphabets, grammars, and syntactic organizations to which the eye alone is sensitive and in this manner "verbalized." However Foucault measuaraes the historical transformation of the clinical gazae into a "glance" as a division of the verabl from the space of observation. The body achieves new gravity and thickness. It is no longer a legible surface or pictured spce travaersed by a totalizing look. Rather, it becomes an object, an impenetrable surface guarding hidden but meaningul depths. Divided from language, the gaze is silecned, becoming "the non-verbal order of contact" (BOC 1222). It now requires instruments to translate the invisible interior of the body into a recognizable sense, not only the stethoscope and other technologies of auscultation, but also a system of signs that can document, classify, and otherwise map this hidden interior onto a legible space. If the gaze is ordered by empriicism, the glance becomes a medical hermeneutic. flows of randomized movements seperated in space but in a contemporal figural glance is much more mobile gaze is fixed the glance is in motion regimes of visabilities what inteligible is knowable hermenutics- the study of methodological principles of interpretation the glance has more to do with paradigm turmoil speed that goes beyond the materilisation of the body nanoseconds instruments can measure it how can one say it exists passive consumers of it we cant comprehend these new bits of data we are not a consumer between bodies and cultural knowledges pattern recognition signification classic to the modern to the figural curiostiy is of a mobile body genenerate conic activity with the internet both suspend identity irony of satalite dishes made to order industry approach transition to an information age 'what shall we talk about' the way we are contructed we are individual survial machines changing subjectivity still atagonistic co-emergence to waht extent are we bilogical programed. perpetualtion of perspective is the same of the perpetuation of religion go to one place and to go to the other place and had to change mulitpicity of means of transportaion in a perspectival grid perspective is reversed
Rodowick, D. 'Reading the Figural' in camera obscura: a journal of feminism and film theory 24, September 1990, pp.11-46
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