>>23051031the critique reduces her to a failed biological mechanism, as if female subjectivity can be assessed by the presence or absence of courtship signals. it’s taxonomy dressed as insight. a desire for life to conform to algorithm
ellie is the leftover. the glitch, the trash object of late capitalism that refuses to become recyclable. Lacan would see her as an expression of the 'objet petit a', that elusive remainder of desire, the excessive kernel that escapes symbolization. she does not fit the fantasy, neither the libidinal fantasy of the male host, nor the ideological fantasy of the audience, the refusal is not active resistance, it is more an act of radical passive opacity. she simply is, and that’s what terrifies everyone.
