Compulsory visibility and the infralegality of racial phantasmata

Datos Bibliográficos

ID7094548
AutoresJoseph Pugliese (0000-0001-7680-5882, Macquarie University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2009
Volumen19
Número1
Páginas9-30
Fecha de publicación2009-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSocial Semiotics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1035-0330 • E-ISSN: 1470-1219
EditorialRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/10350330802632758
OpenAlexW2042413231
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas5
Referencias citadas19

I open this article by offering an exposition of Gilles Deleuze's theorisation on the figure of the phantasm. I then proceed to situate this figure within post-9/11 economies of racial profiling – focusing, in particular, on the Islamophobic mobilisation of the niqab in order to advance arguments premised on differentialist and culturalist racism. Drawing on the work of the British Iranian artist Reza Aramesh, I bring into focus the manner in which racialising somatechnologies are deployed in order to reproduce racist stereotypes and to foment cultural panics. I conclude by underscoring the structural violence that is at once produced and disavowed by Western liberal democracies in the face of unassimilable others

Aesthetics · Art · Exposition (narrative · Face (sociological concept · Focus (optics · Literature · Order (exchange · Racism · Social science · Sociology · Visibility · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Gender Studies · Philosophy · South Asian Cinema and Culture · Walter Benjamin Studies Compilation