Archive - The Week in White Sight

Solidarity in the Age of Digital Genocide

It’s day 425 of the genocide in Palestine, exactly fourteen months. Amnesty International released a 300-page report documenting and naming genocide…

Dec 6, 2024 •

Nicholas Mirzoeff

October 2024

The Visible and the Unspeakable

After a year of genocide, how can the visible and unspeakable in Gaza be placed in relation? By anti-Zionist 'jews' for example?

Oct 7, 2024 •

Nicholas Mirzoeff

May 2024

Palestine Everywhere

A special bulletin entering ways of seeing in and around Palestine following the coincidence of the opening of the Venice Biennale marked by protests…

May 6, 2024 •

Nicholas Mirzoeff

December 2023

The Second Nakba

My right eye won't stop crying, it's as if it were mourning the second Nakba now underway. From the other I can see the amalgam of gains and losses of…

Dec 29, 2023 •

Nicholas Mirzoeff

The Categorical Crisis Moment

There’s a categorical category crisis going on. People in higher education: this means you, now. The categorical requirement to denounce that has been…

Dec 13, 2023 •

Nicholas Mirzoeff

To be a bare witness is to bear witness without protection. All I can do is profess my anarchy, my refusal of state-religion and its inevitable…

Dec 7, 2023 •

Nicholas Mirzoeff

November 2023

To Strike In the Dark

There's a culture war going on around Palestine. In this post, I offer three actions to strike in the dark. The "dark" is all the space outside white…

Nov 13, 2023 •

Nicholas Mirzoeff

October 2023

To See the Rubble in the Dark

How can I see with and in solidarity with Palestine after this week? I try to see the rubble in the dark--this newsletter explains what I mean by that…

Oct 14, 2023 •

Nicholas Mirzoeff

At the new “Manet/Degas” show at the Met, I went on a white dérive, following white paint, whiteness, and white supremacy. I saw Manet trying to shift…

Oct 3, 2023 •

Nicholas Mirzoeff

September 2023

Monet and the Fear of a Black Communard Planet

Experiencing the wildfire-rendered red sun and watching Ja'Tovia Gary's "Giverny Suite" changed my mind about Monet. The title tells you how and it…

Sep 14, 2023 •

Nicholas Mirzoeff

August 2023

The Mass Strike and the Counter-Revolution:

So this is kind of a niche post:-) This summer I read Rosa Luxemburg on the 1905 mass strike and as her editors suggest, I tried applying her ideas to…

Aug 31, 2023 •

Nicholas Mirzoeff

July 2023

"If you could really listen" (For Sinéad)

"Child Abuse! Yeah! Child Abuse! Yeah." After O'Connor's untimely death I reflect on why I, a survivor of child abuse, couldn't hear this line in her…

Jul 27, 2023 •

Nicholas Mirzoeff

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