In "The Right to Look," Nicholas Mirzoeff develops a comparative
decolonial framework for visual culture studies, the field that he
helped to create and shape. Casting modernity as an ongoing contest
between visuality and countervisuality, or "the right to look," he
explains how visuality sutures authority to power and renders the
association natural. An early-nineteenth-century concept, meaning
the visualization of history, visuality has been central to the
legitimization of Western hegemony. Mirzoeff identifies three
"complexes of visuality"--plantation slavery, imperialism, and the
present-day military-industrial complex--and explains how, within
each, power is made to seem self-evident through techniques of
classification, separation, and aestheticization. At the same time,
he shows how each complex of visuality has been countered--by the
enslaved, the colonized, and opponents of war, all of whom assert
autonomy from authority by claiming the right to look. Encompassing
the Caribbean plantation and the Haitian revolution,
anticolonialism in the South Pacific, antifascism in Italy and
Algeria, and the contemporary global counterinsurgency, "The Right
to Look" is a work of astonishing geographic, temporal, and
conceptual reach.
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