The novel is her anthropological gaze on everything.
His intense gaze made everything seem erotic, or maybe on the verge of being defeated.
It is however, consistent with a long heritage of the western gaze, spanning everything from misery-porn about Muslim women, to ostensibly serious journalism that shows life "behind the veil".
Since the late 1980s, they have trained their laser-sharp gaze on everything from the big banks of Frankfurt, to the geometric headquarters of Nato and Unesco, to the sprawling panopticon penitentiaries of the US and international courts of justice – as well as Osama bin Laden's house in Afghanistan.
We all know the algorithms are out there analyzing us, casting their impersonal gaze over everything from traffic jams to tracking people's faces on TV.
It's like Slowdive if they weren't shoe-gaze, minus everything but the guitar haze.
Gazing upon everything that is for sale, stacks of coffinlike men's shoes, mattresses, stolen goods, fresh livers; amid honking and shouting, intermittently catching sight of Illimani, you will discern the shape of another world.
From that moment, though his neutral gaze remained constant, everything he photographed was rendered heightened and unreal.
It's the voice of a tired 65-year-old, who for many years "lowered her gaze and accepted everything", as she puts it.
Ms. Eckert's penetrating gaze fell on everything from building codes that left the skyscrapers without enough stairways for emergency evacuations, to a system of national intelligence that seemed to have a hard time passing e-mail messages from one agency to another.
