Anyone who has watched T.S.A. agents spending 10 minutes patting down 80-year-old grandmothers, or seen dismayed youths being ordered back into the scanner booth by agents connected wirelessly to other invisible agents gazing at images of these people in a state of near-nakedness, has to ask: What form of group madness is it that forsakes judgment and discernment for process run amok?
The interesting and problematic part is invisible: the male gaze.
Outsiders and best friends, the three girls gaze over an invisible fence defined by their poverty and foreignness.
And the mesmerizing Horacio Macuacua, dancing to "A Change Is Gonna Come" by Baby Huey, moved with a grounded forcefulness as he fixed his gaze on an invisible point above the crowd.
The synod was bound within invisible pews, sitting in circles, gazing only at itself.
Many other visitors were gazing at the invisible glass with surprised looks on their faces".
He thought of the Sheikh's distant gaze drifting out over the invisible hills in the night, then coming to rest on him for a brief moment, like a flash in a mirror that lit him up inside".
As noted above, the diagnostic and therapeutic gaze was directed upon that which was invisible in the patient's sick body, the very nature or essence of disease.
She notes in one essay that "to be white in the streets of Accra is to feel oneself curiously anonymous and almost invisible", liberated from both her moral burden and the judgmental gaze of her compatriots back home.
His nearest kinsman, in this respect, is not another film director but a still photographer, Henri Cartier-Bresson, who was said to be almost invisible as he darted about with his Leica, and whose humane and inquisitive gaze refused to dim.
