3: history of branding slaves-> social sorting/"epidermal thinking" embedded in passports, identification documents, credit bureau databases, filmsĬh.
ledger, The Book of Negroes, that lists 3000 self-emancipating former slaves, with identifying biometric informationĬh. 2: "lantern laws," ordinances for regulating Negroes and Slaves in the Night Times" by making them carry lights after dark in NYC and 18th c.
1: complicate Panopticon through a reading of the slave ship Brooks (1789)Ĭh. "dark sousveillance" as freedom practice, critique of racializing surveillanceĬh. video recordings of beatings by police officers) human eye as 'body-borne camera" violence of the cumulative gaze, vs. "surveillance" (organizaitons observing people") w/ "sousveillance" (active inversion of power relations: "observing and recording by entity not in a position of power," ie. Intervention in surveillance literature by naming "absented presence" of blackness: "racializing surveillance"Ĭf.
Surveilllance.is the fact of om transatlantic slavery forward.race continues to structure surveillance practices "we can detect the presence of a black hole by its effects on the region of space where it is located"->use this theorizing as away to make visible the distoriting and productive effects of blackness in general.as rather unperceived yet producing a productive disruption of that around it blackness a key site through which surveillance is practiced, narrated, enacted. Pamela Z's Baggage Allowance Adrian Piper's What It's Like, What It is #3, Caryl Phillips' "The Cargo Rap," Hank Willis Thomas's Branded Series->performances of freedom under a routinzied surveillance, with blackness as "never closed and always under contestation": "Black is.an' black ain't. ĭifference between translation of his title as "The Fact of Blackness" and as "The Lived Experience of the Black," per Sylvia Wynter, is shift from blackness as objective fact to "the imposition of race in black life, where one's being is experienced through others" "what it is like to be black, within the terms of the mode of being human"Įpidermalization: the imposition of race on the body, w/ no "ontological resistance" in spaces shaped for/by whitenessĭark Matters takes up blackness, as metaphor and as lived materiality, and applies it to an understanding of surveillance : Introduction: Fanon's FOIA files form part of the long history of the collection of intelligence on many black radicals, artists, activist, and intellectual targeted for surveillance by the FBI. Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness (Durham: Duke University Press, 2015): Remain befuddled that the balance does not disappear.’’īrowne, Simone. "‘It is as though we have run up a credit-card bill, and, having pledged to charge no more, Not an identity but a moral problem." or, as Coates puts it, "whiteness is a system of social advantages that can be traced back to the advent of slavery. To "complacency" and "complicity"-and then back to "forgotten debt." Works its way through "privilege" ("private" + "law") Starts w/ the german word 'debt' = 'guilt' "White Debt." The New York Times Magazine.
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