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Approval in the Eyes of Others. “The gaze is part of the desire to complete oneself through the other (Lacan)”

Before the invention of the camera, it was possible to document life through art. Self portraits, which artists often depicted, were like a kind of selfie. However, these portraits were tangible objects in the real world, painted on real canvases, and hung on real walls. Truth (person's essence) and representation (Person's picture) were clearly separated.
Over time, with the development of copying and reproduction techniques, the clear distinction between the real and the representation began to blur, but it was still possible to reach the original.

However, when technology makes global communication and global communication makes global capitalism possible and then the global logic of this era blurs the distinction between real and virtual in postmodernity, the distinction between reality and representation disappears. As Jean Baudrillard...

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