Public performance reveals the Other as a prenumerical look that decomposes when objectified

Evidence

The third thing that was happening in the early industrial city involved technological advances in the manufacrure of cloth, and eventually, the mass production of clothing (Smelser, 1959; Lenski, 1970:313-315). I suspect that these advances dealt the most crucial blow to the dominance of the appearential order for they eventually made available to a broad spectrum of persons quite inexpensive clothing that copied in design, if not in quality, the fashions of the elites. Without the availability of such clothing, the masked heterogeneity of the modern city (to be discussed in Chapter Four) might never have been achieved. — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 322 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The Other-as-object reinforces the world’s objectivity while the Other-as-look dissolves it; Mass-produced imitation clothing destroyed the visual class-order of public space — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 322; The Other-as-object resists reduction to his underlying subjectivity

Broader Connections

• The Other-as-object resists reduction to his underlying subjectivity #expands (0.80)
• Mass-produced imitation clothing destroyed the visual class-order of public space #complicates (0.75) — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 322