WGS337H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Thesis Statement, Solange Knowles, Sousveillance
7 Nov 2017
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Photographic counter-stare: wall and linnemann when the public or activist watch police activity often through the use of cameras, the photographic counter stare is a form of counter-surveillance. In raising a camera and watching a police officer abuse his power, you"re giving a middle finger to the state. It is a war on cameras only to the extent that the camera signifies a threat to the larger aesthetic order, much like drugs and poverty are said to be threats to the same order. Sousveillance as interruption: solange knowles" tsa fro issue, protests of trump"s travel bans, using their bodies as a form of interruption and disruption, blm mannequin challenge. Leanne simpson indigenous and black resistance: simpson black and indigenous people are disproportionately targeted. Ferguson is a call not only to indict the system but to decolonize the systems that create and maintain the forces of indigenous genocide and anti-blackness.
