TY - BOOK AU - Nicholas Mirzoeff. AU - Nicholas Mirzoeff. TI - The right to look : : a counterhistory of visuality SN - 9780822349181 U1 - 302.222 MIR PY - 2011/// CY - Durham PB - : Duke University Press KW - Social Science KW - Blik (kijken) KW - philosophy of culture N1 - List of Illustrations ixPreface. Ineluctable Visualities xiiiAcknowledgments xviiIntroduction. The Right to Look, or, How to Think With and Against Visuality 1Visualizing Visuality 351. Oversight: The Ordering of Slavery 482. The Modern Imaginary: Anti-Slavery Revolutions and the Right to Existence 77Puerto Rican Counterpoint I 1173. Visuality: Authority and War 1234. Abolition Realism: Reality, Realisms, and Revolution 155Puerto Rican Counterpoint II 1885. Imperial Visuality and Countervisuality, Ancient and Modern 1966. Anti-Fascist Neorealisms: North-South and the Permanent Battle for Algiers 232Mexican-Spanish Counterpoint 2717. Global Counterinsurgency and the Crisis of Visuality 277Notes 311Bibliography 343Index 373 N2 - This sweeping comparative decolonial framework for visual culture studies, a field the author helped shape, casts modernity as a contest between visuality and countervisuality, or the right to look ER -