HUMAN 1BS Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Peripheral Vision, Willful Blindness
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Orientalism represents the west defining itself from the east. Protects from sun and willing ignorance: girl blinded in one by torture. She has only peripheral vision; cannot see forward: blindfolded during torture, interrogations are hidden, magistrate can"t see the girl"s face in the dream, can"t see ahead. Doesn"t know what the language on the slips mean: language barriers. Group of fishermen brought in but unable to get information out of them due to different language: nameless, faceless people. Is just a function that takes care of empire. No names listed except for colonel jole. He is hidden by sunglasses and still function of empire. No historic background known because of lack of technology. Magistrate wondering to himself how the colonel negotiates between the two lives: person who tortures and person who goes home to family. Magistrate accepts that torture exists: person who commits torture is unclean.
