The Interruption Tour -- Docents' Talk
In an article about the enigmatic status of Kate Moss, Mark K-Punk suggests that Moss refuses the lack articulated by Laura Mulvey in the process of spectatorship by simply returning the gaze.
"In (this) case, not speaking does not connote a failure to be a subject. No: it connotes a confident embracing of the role of the object. (She) doesn't talk back, she looks back, confirming the validity of Lacan's dictum that the gaze is on the side of the object. Lacan was referring to that uncanny sense that objects watch us (the converse of the fact that the petit objet a is a screen for our projections is the sense that beyond the screens, the Real looks back, acquiring all the animation that we have lost). Her gaze suggests that it is not the empowerment of the subject that is the real goal we pursue, but the Sublime serenity of objecthood. To be pored over, stared at, and to look back, not in anger, but with something approaching indifference... what could be better than that?" (“The Gaze of the Object”)