Line of Inquiry

Pattern, belonging, repetition, and soft regulation.

Pattern, repetition, and belonging are often understood as signs of continuity and identity. This chapter asks how they also become quiet systems of regulation, shaping how bodies are expected to appear, belong, and disappear within everyday life.

Line of Inquiry:

Withdrawal, Opacity, Refusal, and Departure

When Eve Left the Scene explores what happens when a woman refuses to remain visible. Rather than understanding disappearance as absence or loss, this line of inquiry approaches withdrawal as a form of agency, asking what begins when the body steps outside the image that was prepared for it.

Line of Inquiry

Contemporary Myths of Optimisation

Eve in Modern Eden explores how contemporary culture rewrites the myth of Eve. Rather than treating the Fall as a distant event, this line of inquiry asks what happens when paradise, temptation, and judgement become internalised, turning the body into the place where they endlessly repeat.

Line of Inquiry

Bodily Autonomy, Law, and Public Space

Who Decides What is Visible? explores how visibility is regulated through law, public space, and institutional power. It asks who has the authority to define which bodies can appear, under what conditions, and what happens when visibility itself becomes contested.

Line of Inquiry:

Cultural Norms, Visual Filters, and Image Culture

Acceptable Visibility explores how bodies learn the conditions of appearing. Rather than treating visibility as something natural, this line of inquiry asks how images, cultural norms, and everyday visual habits gradually shape what becomes acceptable to show, wear, perform, or conceal.