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The Depression of White Succession
Three years after the George Floyd Uprising began, I use the finale of "Succession" as a lens to frame white depression, the sense that "we are…
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May 25, 2020: White Sight in Central Park
It’s three years today since the present arc of white sight was revealed on May 25, 2020. In this post, I look at the legacies of the Central Park…
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The Nakba: The Catastrophe of White Sight
On the 75th anniversary of the Nakba, the catastrophe, I analyze how Palestine is exemplary of the catastrophe of white sight, concentrating on the…
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White Sight and The King
White sight is incarnated in the figure of the “king” and attendant kingship. The sight of the king anchors white supremacy. And it’s failing even at…
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In The Wake of Jordan Neely: The Sousrealism of the Undercommons
In this post, I am thinking in the wake of the murder of Jordan Neely, to use Christina Sharpe's formula, about how to counter the violence of white…
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White Sight: Fair and Balanced?
White sight lives in the cultural unconscious. In the past week, it's become visible how Fox News is home to that cultural unconscious from anti-Black…
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Who's Your Dada? Slash (the) Heteropatriarchy
The militant wing of the British suffragette movement instigated a campaign of direct action in 1908 to slash the cultural infrastructure of (white…
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Statues, Statutes, and Mapping the Neo-Patriarchy
White sight practices a racializing surveillance via an infrastructure that relays between the statue, the state and the statute. Since 2020, it has…
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The War of Images Is a War of Movement
There is a “war of images” going on. Today it’s a conflict in open movement. Yesterday was an advance in the move from a society of control to one of…
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Refuse Depression: Bird Politics, Shipping News and White Fragility TV
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…
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Tailoring Freedom: The London Strike As A Lens
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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TWIW is on strike
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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The Week in White Sight
The Week in White Sight
White sight is part of the operating system that makes and sustains whiteness: what's it been up to this week? A once-a-week newsletter that extends and develops ideas in my book "White Sight: Visual Politics and Practices of Whiteness" (MIT Press) in 202
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