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“Just looking is just hunting, but it is not quite right to say it is only hunting. There is also something quietly hypnotic about just looking, something less like hunting and more like dreaming. (…)

So just looking is like hunting or being hunted, but it is also kin to hypnosis, nightmares, and dreams. Those meanings draw near to yet another, because there is also a deep parallel between looking and loving. Sometimes, falling in love really feels like falling, as if you have no control (…). On other occasions love is all a calculated pursuit. Some people spend their lives searching like detectives among all the faces and bodies they can find. (…) But as lovers say, it’s not always so easy to know who catches whom, and looking happens in both directions. There might be a good definition of love here: love as the moment when the prey becomes another hunter, so that both people are hunters and hunted at once. (…)

It’s strange that love stories begin to fill my mind when I meant to think only about looking, and that is what I want to say about that phrase ‘just looking.’ It is not possible; there is no such moment. All seeing is heated. It must always involve force and desire and intent. (…) It doesn’t matter what I’m looking at (…); ‘just looking’ is a lie. I am always looking out, looking for, even just looking around. (…) There is no looking that is not also directed at something, aimed at some purpose. Looking is looking at or for or just away. Everything that the eye falls on has some momentary interest and possible use. (…)

When I say, ‘Just looking,’ I mean I am searching, I have my ‘eye out’ for something. Looking is hoping, desiring, never just taking in light, never merely collecting patterns and data. Looking is possessing or the desire to possess—we eat food, we own objects, and we ‘possess’ bodies—and there is no looking without thoughts of using, possessing, repossessing, owning, fixing, appropriating, keeping, remembering and commemorating, cherishing, borrowing, and stealing. I cannot look at anything—any object, any person—without the shadow of the thought of possessing that thing. Those appetites don’t just accompany looking, they are looking itself.”

Elkins, James. The Object Stares Back: On the Nature of Seeing.  San Diego: Harcourt, 1997. 20-22.

Comente o excerto acima apresentado, refletindo sobre a complexidade do conceito de visão.

O trabalho deve: ter, no máximo 2 páginas A4, letra de corpo 12, espaço e meio (sem alterar as margens pré-definidas do Word); ser impresso e entregue em mão durante a aula, até ao dia 28 de outubro.