Deliberate self-objectification answers accusations of being reduced to an object

Evidence

Instead of asserting an illusory “authentic subjectivity” which supposedly lies beneath the costumes and the cosmetics, Siouxsie and Grace Jones revelled in becoming objects of the gaze. Both would no doubt have appreciated the derision Baudrillard poured upon the strategy of unmasking appearances in Seduction: “There is no God behind the images and the very nothingness they conceal must remain a secret.” Siouxsie and Jones’ embracing of their objectality testifies to the fact that there is a scopic drive that cult studs whining about “being reduced to an object” has always ignored: the exhibitionist drive to be seen. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1039

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s earlier chapter on Grace Jones’s body as machine (ch58) and the glamour-pornography distinction in ch10. — connects to: Feminine presentation is coerced self-objectification in disguise — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 900; Embracing objectification can itself be a form of agency and power — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1039

Broader Connections

• Feminine presentation is coerced self-objectification in disguise #contradicts (0.80) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 900