specularize

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To make specular or reflective.

   • Unlike most of the producing portion of the range, these ores and near-ores were subjected to mountain-building processes subsequent to their formation. These processes tend to specularize, or harden, the hematite.
2. 2

   To make visible

   To make visible; to elucidate, bring to light, or put on display.

   • Both specularize, for condemnation, the same types of domestic behaviors: illegitimate sexual relationships and atypical domestic power economies.
3. 3

   To make visual

   To make visual; to transform into or represent as visible image.

   • This temptation to specularize Canada in terms of its visibly exotic people must be avoided, largely because what this does is allow white power centres to continue to function, invisibly.
   • The task of art education now, the goal of someone as an artist, is to intensify and objectify personality, to specularize- that is, to make visual-sheer difference as a particular kind of artistic subjectivity.
   • However, if Cleopatra refuses to be signified, to specularize Roman glory, it is made abundantly clear to her that she will pay the price for it.
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   1. 4

      To view voyeuristically

      To view voyeuristically; to objectify as an object to be looked at.

      • Yet the overwhelming force of the drive to specularize is manifested by the fact that the second impulse is not concretized through the representation of 'ugly' or even 'unattractive' women.
      • Voyeurism, theorized as one of the linchpins of the inscription of patriarchy into the cinema, functions conventionally to specularize the feminine and to attribute control over the scenario to the masculine position.

The neighborhood

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