What Do You Want?

Baba: The native's resistance represents a frustration of the 19th century strategy of surveillance. We simply have to teach the savage about what it means to be in contact with that thing that is omniscient and omnipresent, he says. Baba: What ultimately threatens the authority of colonial command is the ambivalence of its address, address, father and oppressor which will not be resolved in dialectical play of power.