To See In the Dark

Palestine and Visual Activism Since October 7

Nicholas Mirzoeff

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English

Pluto Press
20 January 2025

Media studies; Jewish studies; Political activism

Series: Vagabonds

'Timely and clearly written, To See In the Dark is a manifesto to solidarity' - Stephen Sheehi, co-author of Psychoanalysis Under Occupation

To see Palestine is to see the world. Since October 7th 2023, the forces of racial capitalism and settler colonialism have become all too visible in Israel's genocidal war on Gaza.

In To See In the Dark, Nicholas Mirzoeff explores how images, and especially video, viewed outside Palestine enabled a dramatic switch in public opinion, leading to a global uprising against the genocide.

In this groundbreaking analysis, he connects the personal and the political through his own anti-Zionist Jewishness and its histories of violence. The result is a new collective and anti-colonial way of seeing, intersecting online and embodied experience.

By: Nicholas Mirzoeff
Imprint: Pluto Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 215mm, Width: 110mm, Spine: 12mm
ISBN: 9780745351155
ISBN 10: 0745351158
Series: Vagabonds
Pages: 176
Publication Date: 20 January 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

i. Preface ii. Introduction: Palestine Is The World Part One: To See In the Dark 1. To See In The Dark 2. Autopsy Part Two: Visual Politics and Activism 3. Rubble 4. Slash The Screen! 5. Looting 6. Encampments Coda

Among the founders of visual culture as a field, Nicholas Mirzoeff has also written extensively on Jewishness and Palestine . His books include How To See The World, The Right to Look and The Appearance of Black Lives Matter. He has written for the Guardian, Hyperallergic and The Nation. He lives in New York City.

Reviews for To See In the Dark: Palestine and Visual Activism Since October 7

'If ever we ever needed a contemporary rejoinder to John Berger’s Ways of Seeing, this is the book. Timely and clearly written, To See in the Dark is a manifesto to solidarity, a foraging, salvaging and a way to unset alongside the opaque lives of Palestinians, who struggle under organized, genocidal state violence. Through engaging visual works of Palestinian and other artists, Mirzoeff leads us past the “colonial visual screen” and over the rubble, to see new solidarities that arise from associating with the oppressed by dissociating with systems of oppression whose surveillance, checkpoints, prisons, and drones appear in the “white sight” of genocide' -- Stephen Sheehi, co-author of <i>Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in Palestine</i>