E’s Reviews > Astra Magazine, Filth: Issue Two > Status Update

“It’s usually assumed that the male gaze is about power and objectification. It’s actually about anxiety. The male gaze is all about the pull of desire, about how it ‘unmans’ the male viewer. Men have power, but desire has power even over men. And they don’t like it.”
- McKenzie Wark, Art Portfolio: Namio Harukawa