John Burger has this amazing two hour documentary, "ways of seeing", where I first learned how nudity and pornography differ in nature.
To be naked is to be oneself.
To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet
not recognized for oneself.
A naked body has to be seen as an
object in order to become a nude. (The sight of it as an object
stimulates the use of it as an object.)
Nakedness reveals
itself.
Nudity is placed on display.
To be naked is to be without disguise.
To be on display is to have the surface of one’s
own skin, the hairs of one’s own body, turned into a disguise
which, in that situation, can never be discarded. The nude is
condemned to never being naked.
Nudity is a form of dress
So I just have this one dilemma that is is again consequence of browsing through Facebook, unwanted, today: Are we naked or nude in Facebook or any other social media for that matter?
I had thought of this before and had written how blogging is like stripping; bu then I did not distinguish between the two outcomes of stripping: nudity or nakedness.
Are we ourselves, for the sake of ourselves,
Or,
Are we making a scene for the eye of the spectator?
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