Almost all the women were covered by veils, some of them wore burkha similar clothes which covered the whole body, gloves too, the only you could see were the eyes and many wore dark sunglasses. The invisibilization of the body made the body only more desirable and the itch to peel the layers of clothes and see behind was very clear for all of us who were not fully clothed.
However, the subject is rendered invisible not only because of these
associations, but because of the restrictions in place regarding access
to the outside world.
the ways women are both rendered invisible as subjects and are hyper-visible as objects.
Christina wrote today,
Bare life recalls Aristotle’s distinction between mere life and the good life; between private life and the public life of the polis where justice arises from the human community’s capacity to reflect on what is best and necessary for the common good. In the interests of exploring limit concepts, Agamben describes bare life as the life of homo sacer, the obscure and paradoxical figure in ancient Roman law whose life was included in the political order only by way of its exclusion; a life judged unworthy of being lived; a life that could be killed with impunity and whose death therefore had no sacrificial value.[i]
susana mendes silva www.susanamendessilva.com arslonga@netcabo.pt
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