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@BurialOfTheDead What's the criteria for objectifying anything?
All components of physical reality are objects.
Some objects are also subjects with agency.
100% of representational art (including anime) transforms the physical reality of the world into objects to be studied — to evoke a response.
All components of physical reality are objects.
Some objects are also subjects with agency.
100% of representational art (including anime) transforms the physical reality of the world into objects to be studied — to evoke a response.
@BurialOfTheDead There is always the object being represented, and the object created by that process of representation.
So what?
Part of the value of representational art is that it can call our attention to significant aspects of object-ness in the world — including our own object-ness.
So what?
Part of the value of representational art is that it can call our attention to significant aspects of object-ness in the world — including our own object-ness.
@BurialOfTheDead When we try to disavow our own object-ness, we might as well disavow our own selves.
The other side of this:
Embracing, examining, and taking charge of our existence as objects is one part of the process of liberation from others constraining us with their power and authority.
The other side of this:
Embracing, examining, and taking charge of our existence as objects is one part of the process of liberation from others constraining us with their power and authority.
@BurialOfTheDead Good animators (and other artists) help us do this (if we let them) by showing us things about our (and each other's) object-ness — as well as the relationship between that object-ness and our subject-ness — that we might not otherwise notice.
