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Errant Journal: Against Visibility (or, the Right to Opacity) - Softcover

Craen, Irene De

 
9789083404417: Errant Journal: Against Visibility (or, the Right to Opacity)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 9083404412 ISBN 13: 9789083404417
Publisher: Errant Journal, 2025

Synopsis

The eighth issue of Errant Journal questions the ways in which hegemonic culture and discourse tends to prioritize the ideal of openness, access, transparency, and visibility. Delving into topics such as face coverings, ‘coming out' in queer discourses, the use of opacity in transformative justice, and different strategies of (visual) resistance, ‘Against Visibility' can be read as a proposition of refusal of the paradigm of visibility and access that permeates all areas of western thinking. At a moment in which representation and uncovering ‘lost' histories are trending, Errant asks what is being erased in a world where everything must always be visible. When Édouard Glissant proclaimed the right to opacity, he sought not to be reduced or to be measured against an ideal scale in order to be understood and accepted. Expanding from this, Against Visibility looks into the ways in which unlearning imperialism also includes unlearning the ideal of visibility itself.

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Publisher
Errant Journal
Publication date
2025
Language
English
ISBN 10 
9083404412
ISBN 13 
9789083404417
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
144