Vítor Oliveira Jorge (CEAUCP beyond FLUP; University of Porto; vojorge@clix.pt )

Inspired in J. Lacan, Slavoj Zizek wrote (“Looking Awry”, The MIT Press, 1992): “When I look at an object, the object is always already gazing at me, and from a point at which I can not see it.”

And he adds that, if this antinomy - of my view and of the gaze that the object devolves to me - disappears, I am caught in a kind of "pornographic" environment: “reality” approaches too close and in all its details.