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The Gaze (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a term referring to the fact that the knower is constructed alongside the object of knowledge.

The Gaze (n.) that ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠sees is a gaze that dominates: even when it bows to truth, it masters its masters.

The Gaze (n.) that ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a witness brings is the humble cousin of the god's: two slaves can testify only because they saw with their own human eyes.

The Gaze (n.) of ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the clinic found a new sense to model itself on: not the ear that strains after a language, but the index finger that palpates the depths.

The Gaze (n.) no ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠longer reduces the individual once it becomes clinical; it fixes him in his irreducible quality, and so lets a rational language form around him.

The Gaze (n.) in ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠Las Meninas both greets and dismisses us: subject and object, spectator and model, swap roles to infinity — so we do not know who we are. Seen or seeing?