Spectation across glass — noticing-by-not-noticing, the watched Other, the gladness that the glass is there
echoes
From: Signifying Rappers: Rap and Race in the Urban Present
- Early text: D.: "in music as in living we notice by not noticing, by filtering and classifying individual lives into social ‘Problems’ and ‘Crises’ and ‘Wars-On.’" [d-1b:p86] [e-text]; "Interested whites, in fortunate or unavoidable moments, can only stare through a window whose bulletproof glass reveals what makes us glad that glass is there." [d-1b:p87]; the commuter-train gaze at the ghetto, "a kind of rigid fascination with the beauty of ruins in which people live but look or love nothing like you" [d-2c:p4]; black urban America as "America’s great Alien Within, the carcinomoid Other, inside Us" [d-1b:p62]; and the inversion — at the Madison Park concert the white authors discover "we were so conspicuous we were invisible" [d-2a:p4]
- IJ echo: the figurant doctrine (wraith to Gately, pp. 829-839): the background person present but socially erased; EUP's fiction-writers-as-oglers; Poor Tony as figurant in the T-car (scene 069, pp. 299-306).
- Weight: shared-preoccupation