This article is a hot mess, except it’s isn’t hot. This jumped out at me: “If white gazes look at Black folks in the third person, as the philosopher Frantz Fanon once described them, then Black gazes are first-person views of Blackness.” We need a name for this kind of bullsh*t — glossy structuralism? This example has it all: an Important Idea, a Big Small Name, and Clever Symmetry. On closer inspection, though, you get the sense the idea is being misused, the name is one the publication’s readers know only at third hand, and the symmetry is done with mirrors. And maybe most of all, the rhetoric has a way of snapping them together, like cheap plastic parts, into a sentence-machine that’s brittle yet takes careful attention to disassemble.