English 1022E Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Lethal Consequences, Narcissism, Hunger Artist
10 Mar 2016
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Uncomfortable: story about suicide, moriicaion, being witness while morifying oneself, public suicide. We live in a ime of perspecive: everything we do is performed for other people. Tapping into some current in the human: some desire in the human to be witnessed. Story about art, an arist: therefore, a story about creaivity. This is a parable: short narraive that has a point but that point is not necessarily obvious, parable with a secret because it allows itself to be read in a variety of ways. Some people will hear a parable and not get it at all. Some people will immediately get it: seems that in christ teachings there is a secret in his parables, meaning is never immediately apparent. Hunger arist could be seen as some sort of religious igure. Story that is atemping to illustrate a very simply philosophical idea: esse est percipi. To be human is to be the object of the gaze of others.
