Seduction/Complicity
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Jean Baudrillard: “What is seduction?
What is it to be seduced... visually?
It is not to be outwitted, or deceived, or overpowered
by the screen image.
There has to be complicity.
One does not seduce alone.
It is always a question of two;
of the dual and the duel.
Never a simple matter of domination;
whatever the seducer may think.
Doesn’t the seducer end up losing herself in the strategy?
As in an emotional labyrinth?
Doesn’t she invent that strategy in order to lose herself in it?
And she who believes herself the game’s master;
isn’t she the first victim of strategy's tragic myth?”
23 August, 2008