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Nicholas Mirzoeff, "White Sight: Visual Politics and Practices of Whiteness" (MIT Press, 2023)

New Books in Anthropology

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The Overseering of the Plantation

The plantation is administered by a man whose job is called the overseer, not in every European language. The modern counterpart to this is the drone, which also has a pyromedical frame of vision and can turn that seeing at a second's notice into violence. After the fall of slavery, the people that practiced it themselves described it as a kind of magic. They couldn't quite believe themselves that they've been able to pull this off for so long.

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