The algorithm is a story and accelerates, or rather, a juxtaposition of a certain change in society, which may not continue in accordance with how society progresses. The argument of the internalization of masculine and feminine experience is true in other arenas. Many of the old processes have been internalized, and digitalization is a parallel process. The internalization is created by those who produce it, which allows for the propagation of what is already occurring in society. They are a product of that very internalization, and its systems are being made in parallel alongside it.
Yet the argument does not allow for the objective male gaze, which existed prior to its internalization, and which is still true and takes place, although not generally speaking, because of the internalization of these processes. Yet we can still theorize, critique, and proceed with a process of understanding the male gaze as an objective standpoint, with or without recognition of what is occurring in the internalization.
What is offered in the internalization of this process is that we become aware of its occurrences, but fundamentally it is still a political construct, experienced at certain levels of organization. For example, in a family setting in which a newcomer enters, there will be a stronger construct of the male–female gaze that is less concerned with internalization and more a reproduction of the current process.
It is this objective reality that can change, so that internalization does not remain static. We cannot develop internalization without objective change, since it mirrors an external political process. Ultimately, instead of realizing its internalization and dictating that it is not the female–male dynamic that is occurring, we instead get a minority of circumstances in which it remains objective. It is in that realm that we can develop it, so that these internal processes, mirrored in the digital process, may change.
The Structure of Consciousness
An Inquiry into Mind, Perception, and Internal Architecture
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