2nd wave feminism

The use of AI generated models in Vogue for example is a representation of the acceleration into this hyperreality. Not only are these AI models designed as Frankenstein-esque copies of pre-existing women, they exist as an expression of the feminine without the woman to even express it.

The social expectation and pressure to be beautiful under the pressure of consumer culture is representative of the detachment from true beauty. The cultivation of the superficial feminine was created as a medium in order to sell products. We saw this emphasized in the early 20th century with the emergence of teen culture. And as the years passed... See more

“If the body is no longer a site of otherness but of identification, then we have urgently to become reconciled with it, repair it, perfect it, turn it into an ideal object. Everyone treats their bodies the way men treat women in projective identification: they invest them as a fetish, making an autistic cult of them, subjecting them to a... See more