Kylie Jenner reveals details about her surgery

In Pygmalion From Ovid, an artist creates a sculpture of ivory of a woman so beautiful that she falls in love with her. He kisses his statue, adorns her with elegant jewels and clothes and pray to Venus to grant him a girlfriend just like her. Venus responds to his prayer. He gives life to the statue, turning the ivory into flesh. Pygmalion marries its ideal creation, later known as Galatea.

The artists have reimagined the history of Pygmalion (written in the year 8 AD) for centuries, in innumerable stories of seductive or automatons that come alive or that oscillate between looks completely alive and be inanimate objects, from the ballet Coppélia to Metropolis From Fritz Lang, the 1987 movie Manikin (starring Kim Cattrall), She, Spike Jonze movie, and even the Barbie of Greta Gerwig in 2023. In all cases, however, “life” is presented as the desired option.

But in our new world promoted by artificial intelligence, where human reality moves more and more away from our reach, the pigmalion paradigm is changing.

Instead of transcending the inanimate substance to human flesh, today’s galateas travel the reverse path, transforming into creations of artists and subjecting their living flesh to inanimate touches and substances, and announcing everything with joy in social networks, in itself another form of unreality.

The mother-daughter duo formed by Kris and Kylie Jenner is at the forefront of this change, marking the beginning of a new era of the culture of beauty. Now, the famous ones can not only recognize that they have undergone plastic surgery, but can also reveal the names of their doctors and even drop surgical details, basically stamping their parts of the aesthetically altered body with a medical luxury logo. Forget about Balenciaga and Chanel, now on the most elegant labels you can read “Steven Levine” or “Garth Fisher”, the plastic surgeons mentioned by the Jenner.