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Hi Ruben, in your beautiful text I found a echo of Christoffer's discussion as well as mine - and I agree, since we all are the object to surveillance and biopolitics, there is no outside, and therefore disrupting the construction of such normativity through individual behavior is surely effective.

What made me contemplate is, how should we comprehend this ambiguity of gaze? For example, in the feminist theory, gaze is often discussed as a form of objectification (referred to as male gaze) therefore as a harmful one. And as you mentioned, the surveillance system certainly marginalises and eliminates people deemed "unpredictable" from the society through their gaze, thus I believe it could do a significant harm to the minority communities. However, essentially "gaze" also entails care, affection, curiosity, or even desire. I wonder what transforms the same gaze from fatal one to care-full one. or, how could we reimagine the mechanical gaze (or algorithmic gaze) to uphold such attitudes? I believe this discussion revisits your discourse on indifference as well - indifference (the lack of attention or care)could be a powerful weapon to enforce the larger sociopolitical control. Looking forward to having a discussion in-person soon too!