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Pandemic Visuality: Immunopolitics, White Seeing-Space, and the Police

Chapter of: The Pandemic Visual Regime: Visuality and Performativity in the Covid-19 Crisis(pp. 25–61)

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TitlePandemic Visuality
SubtitleImmunopolitics, White Seeing-Space, and the Police
ContributorNicholas Mirzoeff(author)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.53288/0448.1.03
Landing pagehttps://punctumbooks.com/titles/the-pandemic-visual-regime-visuality-and-performativity-in-the-covid-19-crisis/
Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
CopyrightNicholas Mirzoeff
Publisherpunctum books
Published on2023-11-09
Long abstractThis piece addresses the politics of immunity, in terms of both immunity from state action and immunity to viruses in the general crisis of 2020. Paying particular attention to the connections between white supremacy and these immunopolitics, biopolitics and necropolitics, the essay examines a series of specific moments in the psychodrama of US life across 2020.
Page rangepp. 25–61
Print length37 pages
LanguageEnglish (Original)
Keywords
  • COVID-19
  • whiteness
  • white supremacy
  • immunopolitics
  • biopolitics
  • necropolitics
Contributors

Nicholas Mirzoeff

(author)
professor of media, culture, and communication at New York University
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6989-6402

Nicholas Mirzoeff is a professor of media, culture, and communication at New York University. A visual activist, working at the intersection of politics and global/digital visual culture, since the late 1990s he has authored and edited various foundational books on visual culture, including The Visual Culture Reader (Routledge, 1998), An Introduction to Visual Culture (Routledge, 1999), The Right to Look: A Counterhistory of Visuality (Duke University Press, 2011), and How to See the World (Pelican, 2015). The last has been translated into ten languages and was a New Scientist Top Ten Book of the Year for 2015. His most recent publications include The Appearance of Black Lives Matter ([NAME] Publications, 2017) and White Sight: Visual Politics and Practices of Whiteness (MIT Press, 2023). A frequent blogger and writer, his work has also appeared on countless journals and magazine, including e-flux journal, Frieze, The Guardian, Hyperallergic, The Nation, The New Republic, The New York Times, and Time.