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Don’t be depressed. The general crisis of whiteness continues. I hail this week two notable wins, some wonderful new art and poetry that adds to our capacity to build on these issues, and just to keep it real, diss so-called “prestige” TV.
Nicholas Mirzoeff
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Last week in London, 750,000 people were on strike as the latest financial crash began. The strike is a lens to see the present condition of white sight…
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Hi everyone: I’m in the UK where almost everything is on strike. Which is interesting. Because Higher Education unions are on strike and asking that…
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Or, Must We Burn Baudelaire? Re-reading Baudelaire's famous dismissal of sculpture, I saw how it relies on colonial and racial hierarchy. So rather than…
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This post is prompted by a wave of tweets and other posts accusing my book of something called "white genocide." Abolition undoes systems. Genocide…
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All but one of the white people on NYC's Progressive Council resigned rather than sign up for a set of principles that would have restrained police and…
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Today, the book that prompted this project—White Sight: Visual Politics and Practices of Whiteness—is published. A book about white supremacy isn't…
Nicholas Mirzoeff
The events of 2020 revealed a long-standing interaction of police, the monument and sadistic anger as the means of sustaining white sight. The monument…
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