The Right to Look - A Counterhistory of Visuality by Nicholas Mirzoeff

By Nicholas Mirzoeff

Within the correct to seem, Nicholas Mirzoeff develops a comparative decolonial framework for visible tradition reviews, the sphere that he helped to create and form. Casting modernity as an ongoing contest among visuality and countervisuality, or “the correct to look,” he explains how visuality sutures authority to energy and renders the organization average. An early-nineteenth-century thought, that means the visualization of heritage, visuality has been principal to the legitimization of Western hegemony. Mirzoeff identifies 3 “complexes of visuality”—plantation slavery, imperialism, and the present-day military-industrial complex—and explains how, inside every one, energy is made to appear self-evident via ideas of class, separation, and aestheticization. whilst, he exhibits how every one complicated of visuality has been countered—by the enslaved, the colonized, and competitors of conflict, all of whom assert autonomy from authority through claiming the correct to appear. Encompassing the Caribbean plantation and the Haitian revolution, anticolonialism within the South Pacific, antifascism in Italy and Algeria, and the modern international counterinsurgency, definitely the right to appear is a piece of mind-blowing geographic, temporal, and conceptual succeed in.

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Duke University Press. All rights reserved. Mirzoeff, Nicholas. Right to Look : A Counterhistory of Visuality. Durham, NC, USA: Duke University Press, 2011. ProQuest ebrary. Web. 13 December 2014. Copyright © 2011. Duke University Press. All rights reserved. Mirzoeff, Nicholas. Right to Look : A Counterhistory of Visuality. Durham, NC, USA: Duke University Press, 2011. ProQuest ebrary. Web. 13 December 2014. Copyright © 2011. Duke University Press. All rights reserved. Mirzoeff, Nicholas. Right to Look : A Counterhistory of Visuality.

Right to Look : A Counterhistory of Visuality. Durham, NC, USA: Duke University Press, 2011. ProQuest ebrary. Web. 13 December 2014. Copyright © 2011. Duke University Press. All rights reserved. Mirzoeff, Nicholas. Right to Look : A Counterhistory of Visuality. Durham, NC, USA: Duke University Press, 2011. ProQuest ebrary. Web. 13 December 2014. Copyright © 2011. Duke University Press. All rights reserved. Mirzoeff, Nicholas. Right to Look : A Counterhistory of Visuality. Durham, NC, USA: Duke University Press, 2011.

Web. 13 December 2014. Copyright © 2011. Duke University Press. All rights reserved. Mirzoeff, Nicholas. Right to Look : A Counterhistory of Visuality. Durham, NC, USA: Duke University Press, 2011. ProQuest ebrary. Web. 13 December 2014. Copyright © 2011. Duke University Press. All rights reserved. Mirzoeff, Nicholas. Right to Look : A Counterhistory of Visuality. Durham, NC, USA: Duke University Press, 2011. ProQuest ebrary. Web. 13 December 2014. Copyright © 2011. Duke University Press. All rights reserved.

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