It's not that we think women are necessarily apparent or speaking as much as men, but that we expect them to be, relatively speaking, invisible and not speaking, so, by comparison, any appearance and speech is "too much".
The concern is noted even in the Bloomberg administration, where some speak of invisible countdown clocks in every city office, reminding officials of the dwindling time to complete projects.
"My intention is to make the subtle world emerge, to speak to invisible yet felt energies that move through us; to elevate our perceptions that through materiality, abstraction, and colour translate into vibration and energy, pierce through the veil.
"My intention is to make the subtle world emerge, to speak to invisible yet felt energies that move through us; to elevate our perceptions that through materiality, abstraction, and color translate into vibration and energy, pierce through the veil.
Nonetheless, the quote from Hegel's Philosophy of Nature cannot but strike the reader of The Visible and the Invisible where Merleau-Ponty speaks of the Invisible as the Invisible of the Visible, as its lining.
I have met with parents accompanying their daughters on campus visits who speak in "third person invisible".
The sentimentalism is icky, the dialogue porridgy and the actors quite often move and speak as if wearing invisible deep-sea diving suits.
Thus, "non-places" go happily along with terms such as "post-modern"—and post-everything indeed deconstructionism, de-growth, relativism, liquid society, not to speak about Calvino's "invisible cities" that is the ultimate symbolic definition of the contemporary urban condition.
Other wounds are invisible: They speak of disease, of near-starvation, of seeing fellow travelers die, then throwing their corpses over the bow.
"The characters John created spoke to feeling invisible and an outsider," Matt told me recently.
