Nicholas Mirzoeff, White Sight: Visual Politics and Practices of Whiteness

Writing at the intersection of visual culture and political practices, in his last book Nicholas Mirzoeff approaches white sight as a learned cultural system that sustains white reality, along with white infrastructures and the cultural unconscious of whiteness. If the purpose of white reality is t...

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Publicat a:URI:https://journals.openedition.org/interfaces,
Autor principal: Salari, Chiara
Format: Article ou chapitre numérique
Idioma:Anglais
Publicat: Interfaces 2025
Accés en línia:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Sumari:Writing at the intersection of visual culture and political practices, in his last book Nicholas Mirzoeff approaches white sight as a learned cultural system that sustains white reality, along with white infrastructures and the cultural unconscious of whiteness. If the purpose of white reality is to keep whiteness’s dominance invisibilized, the organization of a strike against whiteness makes another world visible, working at the conscious level to counter the impulses of the received cultur...