The right to look: a counterhistory of visuality

List of Illustrations ix Preface. Ineluctable Visualities xiii Acknowledgments xvii Introduction. The Right to Look, or, How to Think With and Against Visuality 1 Visualizing Visuality 35 1. Oversight: The Ordering of Slavery 48 2. The Modern Imaginary: Anti-Slavery Revolutions and the Right to Existence 77 Puerto Rican Counterpoint I 117 3. Visuality: Authority and War 123 4. Abolition Realism: Reality, Realisms, and Revolution 155 Puerto Rican Counterpoint II 188 5. Imperial Visuality and Countervisuality, Ancient and Modern 196 6. Anti-Fascist Neorealisms: North-South and the Permanent Battle for Algiers 232 Mexican-Spanish Counterpoint 271 7. Global Counterinsurgency and the Crisis of Visuality 277 Notes 311 Bibliography 343 Index 373