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MIRZOEFF NicholasThe right to look : a counterhistory of visualityDurham : Duke university press, 2011, XIX-385 p.-[8] p. de pl.ISBN 978-0-8223-4895-5MOND 507Résumé :In The Right to Look, Nicholas Mirzoeff develops a comparative decolonial framework for visual culture studies, the field that he helped to create and shape. Casting modernity as an ongoing contest between visuality and countervisuality, or “the right to look,” he explains how visuality sutures authority to power and renders the association natural. An early-nineteenth-century concept, meaning the visualization of history, visuality has been central to the legitimization of Western hegemony. Mirzoeff identifies three “complexes of visuality”—plantation slavery, imperialism, and the present-day military-industrial complex—and explains how, within each, power is made to seem self-evident through techniques of classification, separation, and aestheticization. At the same time, he shows how each complex of visuality has been countered—by the enslaved, the colonized, and opponents of war, all of whom assert autonomy from authority by claiming the right to look. Encompassing the Caribbean plantation and the Haitian revolution, anticolonialism in the South Pacific, antifascism in Italy and Algeria, and the contemporary global counterinsurgency, The Right to Look is a work of astonishing geographic, temporal, and conceptual reach.Nicholas Mirzoeff is Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. He is the author of several books, including An Introduction to Visual Culture, Watching Babylon: The War in Iraq and Global Visual Culture, and Diaspora and Visual Culture : Representing Africans and Jews, as well as the editor of The Visual Culture Reader.Table des matières :Introduction. The Right to Look, or, How to Think With and Against VisualityVisualizing Visuality1. Oversight: The Ordering of Slavery2. The Modern Imaginary: Anti-Slavery Revolutions and the Right to ExistencePuerto Rican Counterpoint I3. Visuality: Authority and War4. Abolition Realism: Reality, Realisms, and RevolutionPuerto Rican Counterpoint II5. Imperial Visuality and Countervisuality, Ancient and Modern6. Anti-Fascist Neorealisms: North-South and the Permanent Battle for AlgiersMexican-Spanish Counterpoint7. Global Counterinsurgency and the Crisis of VisualityAxe de recherches : Axe transversal : Cultures visuelles&#160;