Amanda and Sam, the Big Brother twins, are remarkable for their absolute ... emptiness. Perhaps this is the wrong word, I mean simply that they have a lack of self-awareness from which to act, they act, they do not think about why they act. This is remarkable because it goes against the norm for just about every Big Brother contestant ever (Brian from season 2 being an exception that springs to mind). They all sit around telling us how they are being real, being true to themselves etc., and they act only in the light of this, thus completely ruining their ability to act "real". (As I type this BBLB is currently discussing how they can't understand what the twins are saying, which I guess demonstrates my thesis).
Then in walks Gerry. Gerry introduces Lacan's discourse of the university, "behind all attempts at to impart an apparently 'neutral' knowledge to the other can always be located an attempt at mastery (mastery of knowledge and domination of the other to who the knowledge is imparted)". And what does he do? He immediately makes the twins aware of their position in the house. They are no longer just there to have fun, they are "there to have fun", they are there to entertain the others, this is now their assumed role, no longer just "the way they are".
All the talk of innocence demonstrates Gerry's desire to use knowledge as a type of mastery. He belittles them as he tells them how great they are. He denies them any knowledge other than that which he imparts to them as Solomon.
Thus enjoyment for the twins must become a sort of burden...
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