Consider the cate\u00adgo\u00adry of desire that is the desire to make a sto\u00adny expres\u00adsion break. Think of those humans who are attrac\u00adtive for the pri\u00adma\u00adry rea\u00adson of how the pre\u00adsen\u00adta\u00adtion of their face and body is impe\u00adne\u00adtrable or broo\u00adding or fierce or impas\u00adsive with broo\u00adding fier\u00adce\u00adness. This cate\u00adgo\u00adry of desire is simple, slight\u00adly mecha\u00adnis\u00adtic : to pene\u00adtrate the broo\u00adding, fierce, impas\u00adsive, impe\u00adne\u00adtrable presentation.<\/p>\n
There are seve\u00adral ways to make a sto\u00adny expres\u00adsion break. These include to enrage, to sur\u00adprise, to humi\u00adliate, to sad\u00adden, and to give plea\u00adsure. The experts at impas\u00adsive expres\u00adsion, howe\u00adver, are not so vul\u00adne\u00adrable to sad\u00adness, rage, or humi\u00adlia\u00adtion : it is pre\u00adci\u00adse\u00adly these expres\u00adsions that they have prac\u00adti\u00adced steel looks against over many years, tes\u00adting their own faces always against their own afflic\u00adtions. For eve\u00adry afflic\u00adtion they endure they might think \u00ab And how may I use this afflic\u00adtion to shar\u00adpen my appea\u00adrance of impas\u00adsi\u00advi\u00adty ? \u00bb For what, they conclude, is a humi\u00adlia\u00adtion if the humi\u00adlia\u00adtor does not suc\u00adceed in cas\u00adting down the eyes down\u00adward ? And what is sad\u00adness with no tears ? Or rage with no fla\u00adshing eyes ? Those humans who are attrac\u00adtive for the pri\u00adma\u00adry rea\u00adson of the impe\u00adne\u00adtrable pre\u00adsen\u00adta\u00adtion of their face are attrac\u00adtive for the rigor with which they self-culti\u00advate their impe\u00adne\u00adtra\u00adbi\u00adli\u00adty. The experts at facial impas\u00adsi\u00advi\u00adty are the hard scien\u00adtists of themselves.<\/p>\n
Surprise, while effec\u00adtive at making the unbro\u00adken expres\u00adsion break, is dif\u00adfi\u00adcult to achieve in this popu\u00adla\u00adtion. It takes prac\u00adti\u00adced unpre\u00addic\u00adta\u00adbi\u00adli\u00adty to sur\u00adprise the expert of the unre\u00adlen\u00adtin\u00adgly unmo\u00adved face. The sur\u00adpri\u00adsed look, howe\u00adver, is a moment of intense satis\u00adfac\u00adtion for those who have the occa\u00adsion to wit\u00adness it. In a sto\u00adny face sur\u00adprise is some\u00adthing like a rock slide\u2013\u2013or if an excep\u00adtio\u00adnal example, as if a cliff face falls\u2013\u2013and revea\u00adled by this fall is an enti\u00adre\u00adly new land\u00adscape of uni\u00adma\u00adgi\u00adnable charm and elas\u00adti\u00adci\u00adty, one that prac\u00adti\u00adcal\u00adly bounds with itself : mea\u00addows, flo\u00adwers, small ani\u00admals, clear lakes ruf\u00adfled by soft breezes.<\/p>\n
Of all the rea\u00adsons to test against a hard face, to watch it express its own plea\u00adsure is the most com\u00adpel\u00adling. Emily Dickinson des\u00adcri\u00adbed it : \u00ab It is a Vesuvian face. Had let its plea\u00adsure through. \u00bb It is no mis\u00adtake that Dickinson ima\u00adgi\u00adned the \u00ab plea\u00adsure through \u00bb to be of the kind that could evis\u00adce\u00adrate cities. This expres\u00adsion of plea\u00adsure, when let through this kind of face, has no small effect : it is exact\u00adly, too, like Dickinson sug\u00adgests in the same poem, the firing of a gun : wha\u00adte\u00adver is a not-nothing is the not-nothing of this event, which is real\u00adly unde\u00adnia\u00adbly some\u00adthing, like any form of explo\u00adsion. To achieve a look of plea\u00adsure in a face which has prac\u00adti\u00adced itself against expres\u00adsing open delight is always an his\u00adto\u00adric accom\u00adplish\u00adment in the his\u00adto\u00adry of desires and faces.<\/p>\n
This desire\u2013\u2013to delight the unde\u00adligh\u00adted face\u2013\u2013can com\u00adpel an ambi\u00adtious per\u00adson to attempt to cause ano\u00adther plea\u00adsure for years. \u00ab Might I break open their face with plea\u00adsure ? \u00bb the ambi\u00adtious appre\u00adcia\u00adtor of undoing impas\u00adsive face asks, and fai\u00adling, tries again, and fai\u00adling, tries again, employing eve\u00adry wea\u00adpon in the arse\u00adnal of inter\u00adper\u00adso\u00adnal plea\u00adsures, until one day, if they are lucky, the plea\u00adsure in the unplea\u00adsed face is revealed.<\/p>\n
When the plea\u00adsure arrives (as if a gun shot, vol\u00adca\u00adno, dyna\u00admi\u00adted urban struc\u00adture, star which has implo\u00added) it is unsur\u00adpri\u00adsing if an entire city must be devas\u00adta\u00adted into a monu\u00adment of that very moment, all things fro\u00adzen under ash, lovers cur\u00adled toge\u00adther, infants in mothers\u2019 arms, bathers eter\u00adnal\u00adly in baths\u2013\u2013all neces\u00adsa\u00adri\u00adly sacri\u00adfi\u00adced to memo\u00adria\u00adlize a moment when she or he or they who often appears beyond plea\u00adsure dis\u00adplays, in his or her or their face, a look of it.<\/p>\n
to effect a num\u00adber of rapid changes on an alrea\u00addy rapid\u00adly chan\u00adging face<\/i><\/p>\n
The impas\u00adsive face has its rival : the face that can never hold still. The face is kine\u00adtic, elas\u00adtic, mor\u00adpho\u00adlo\u00adgi\u00adcal\u00adly indis\u00adtinct, bloo\u00adming like frac\u00adtals, the curse of digi\u00adtal pho\u00adto\u00adgra\u00adphers and bio-infor\u00adma\u00adtio\u00adnists who must try to fix, in data, what is in its very form unfixable. This face pro\u00advides an onrush of infor\u00adma\u00adtion which comes so qui\u00adck\u00adly it almost evades pro\u00adces\u00adsing : this face is pro\u00adli\u00adfic, a human come\u00addy of feeling\u2013\u2013any one hour of rea\u00adding this face means one can read a Balzac\u2019s worth of novels, also wit\u00adness a pro\u00adjec\u00adted record of the gene\u00adric lega\u00adcy of the human race (and beyond that, the pre-human ones), also wit\u00adness an ardent record of fee\u00adling in a bathe\u00adtic lea\u00adping from the gro\u00adtesque to the pre\u00adcious to the sublime and wha\u00adte\u00adver chi\u00adme\u00adri\u00adcal expres\u00adsion of fee\u00adling results from quick leaps from one fee\u00adling to the next : the gro\u00adtesque-deli\u00adcate, the thought\u00adful-enra\u00adged, the distracted-amused.<\/p>\n
These are the faces, which, like the avant-garde lite\u00adra\u00adture, must at once create their own texts and their own theo\u00adries of rea\u00adding them. For what are these faces without a unique cri\u00adti\u00adcal infra\u00adstruc\u00adture new\u00adly inven\u00adted to inter\u00adpret them ? These are the faces easi\u00adly mis\u00adta\u00adken for noise, like the sounds of traf\u00adfic out\u00adside the win\u00addow, so relent\u00adless it soon becomes what you can\u2019t hear.<\/p>\n
The high\u00adly sen\u00adsi\u00adtive fla\u00adshing of these eyes might appear, without suf\u00adfi\u00adcient\u00adly deve\u00adlo\u00adped methods of rea\u00adding, ran\u00addom, alea\u00adto\u00adry, chao\u00adtic. At their extreme, and like any com\u00adplex thing, such rapid\u00adly fla\u00adshing and elas\u00adtic and rapid\u00adly expres\u00adsing faces might be mis\u00adta\u00adken for disorganized.<\/p>\n
When they arrive without theo\u00adry, these faces are a delight to those enthral\u00adled with enligh\u00adten\u00adment methods, who need a lot of things to cate\u00adgo\u00adrize, who like to impose order, who are besot, like Fourier\u2019s chil\u00addren, with the pas\u00adsion to sort small things into use\u00adful piles1<\/a><\/sup>. Not acci\u00addent\u00adly, these faces are also of delight to sadists, those sub-sub-enligh\u00adten\u00admen\u00adta\u00adrians, who also never for\u00adget to bring with them a scal\u00adpel. For what could be of more delight to a sadist than a face that in a few minutes can write a dozen very clear books about exqui\u00adsite and sur\u00adpri\u00adsing varie\u00adties of pain ?<\/p>\n to resolve a face\u2019s contradictions<\/i><\/p>\n Do not for\u00adget the face that looks like its oppo\u00adsite : the face of a che\u00adru\u00adbic CEO, or a vil\u00adlai\u00adnous and some\u00adtimes demo\u00adnic face on a per\u00adson who it vir\u00adtuous, or a lan\u00adguid face on a fire\u00adbrand, or an angry face on a per\u00adson who is most\u00adly indif\u00adferent, or a stu\u00adpid face on a very bright per\u00adson, or an ugly face on en attrac\u00adtive per\u00adson, or some com\u00adbi\u00adna\u00adtion of the above\u2013\u2013a vil\u00adlai\u00adnous stu\u00adpid face on a bright and vir\u00adtuous per\u00adson, an ugly che\u00adru\u00adbic face on a sexy CEO. These faces present those who look upon them with a chal\u00adlenge of inter\u00adpre\u00adta\u00adtion : should you believe the face, or should you believe the condi\u00adtion of per\u00adso\u00adna\u00adli\u00adty under the face ? Or, if there is a third option, is any man\u00adner of belief about the face only in fact belief about a condi\u00adtion in which the face is oppo\u00adsite to itself ?<\/p>\n These faces are of par\u00adti\u00adcu\u00adlar desi\u00adra\u00adbi\u00adli\u00adty to the sus\u00adpi\u00adcious, like Platonists, or fans of the idea of false conscious\u00adness, or admi\u00adrers of Freu. Such a desire-er of faces might want to wash off the accu\u00admu\u00adla\u00adtion of mis\u00adlea\u00adding fle\u00adshy evi\u00addence that is a person\u2019s face, so as to reveal wha\u00adte\u00adver kind of truer, demys\u00adti\u00adfied thing exists under it.<\/p>\n Similarly, these faces attract the humans who like to be righ\u00adters of wrongs, figh\u00adters against injus\u00adtices, expo\u00adsers of truths, and see\u00adkers of reme\u00addies. If I am a mir\u00adror enough<\/i>, the expo\u00adser of truth thinks to her\u00adself (making her habi\u00adtual error of thought), the face itself will trans\u00adform in res\u00adponse to the vera\u00adci\u00adty of my reflec\u00adtion : what is vir\u00adtuous, if I reflect it, will soon appear with vir\u00adtue, what is evil will be revealed !<\/i><\/p>\n But among the refor\u00admers who like these faces, there is ano\u00adther sort of per\u00adson who might gaze upon these faces with a dif\u00adferent inter\u00adest. These are the rough dia\u00adlec\u00adti\u00adcians, always loo\u00adking for the contra\u00addic\u00adtion. How inter\u00ades\u00adting, they think, and what could it mean for his\u00adto\u00adry, that a face is wrong for itself in a time in which all is also so wrong. The ani\u00admals sit for\u00adlorn or ride sub\u00adways in city cen\u00adters. The water has become poi\u00adson. The old behave like the young, and the young are too wor\u00adried to move. Pilotless wea\u00adpons have the name of birds, so why shouldn\u2019t faces, also, lead away from the facts ? To the lovers of the contra\u00addic\u00adtion, these faces are a per\u00adfect account of our time : the poe\u00adtry of the wrong.<\/p>\n I have often thought that the faces do not reveal the per\u00adson but rather the condi\u00adtions in which all things are the oppo\u00adsite of what they appear to be would become most inter\u00ades\u00adting in a death mask. With the per\u00adso\u00adna\u00adli\u00adty gone, would the face that was always untrue final\u00adly be made the truth ? And what do we do with a contra\u00addic\u00adtion when its only reso\u00adlu\u00adtion is that half the facts are removed ?<\/p>\n Consider the cate\u00adgo\u00adry of desire that is the desire to make a sto\u00adny expres\u00adsion break. Think of those humans who are attrac\u00adtive for the pri\u00adma\u00adry rea\u00adson of how the pre\u00adsen\u00adta\u00adtion of their face and body is impe\u00adne\u00adtrable or broo\u00adding or fierce or impas\u00adsive with broo\u00adding fier\u00adce\u00adness. 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