The stardom urge and the ontologizing Stare — you exist insofar as you are watched
echoes
From: Signifying Rappers: Rap and Race in the Urban Present
- Early text: M.: "And best of luck making sense out of gangbanging, out of rap, out of anything in Reaganania or this book without admitting first that the hub of the wheel is the urge to be a star." [m-1a:p88] [e-text]. D. deepens it: the Soft rap's self-love song means "he’s saying he exists. The Soft rap’s the postmodern love song." [d-3h:p4]; and the terminus — "to be Enfaced, you must have, buy, and display." [d-3h:p7]
- IJ echo: LaMont Chu's fame-hunger and Lyle's counsel on worship (scene 082, pp. 386-391); the attention/worship cluster (
worship-attention); the terror of being unwatched that surfaces in the figurant doctrine (pp. 829-839).
- Weight: prefiguration