In a world that really has been turned on its head, truth is a moment of false­hood.

Apprehended in a partial way, reality unfolds in a new generality as a pseudo-world apart, solely as an object of contemplation.

How is a virtual reality different from the one which for so long we have simply and complacently called 'the Real'?

'these new spaces instantiate the collapse of the boundaries between the social and technological, biology and machine, natural and artificial that are part of the postmodern imaginary.'

This claim of white suffering is difficult to assert when it is suffering accompanied by privilege: a suffering that appears trivial compared to the material suffering of Indigenous Australians. Yet the two are intertwined: a failure to acknowledge the negative consequences of racism on whites encourages further denial of white racial identity and maintains the pretence of invisibility that feeds into Indigenous disadvantage.

These laws can sometimes have the unintended effect of making subordinated bodies hypervisible, making them wear the consequences of embodiment, so that black bodies are more situated, biased, affected by materiality, while white bodies remain neutral and unaffected by their embodiment.

a self-willed blindness

Both whiteness and blacknessare, at different times, invisible in law.

hiteness’ like ‘blackness’, is at once socially constructed and accepted as biological ‘fact’.

If I wrote about Indigenous people, I felt that I reinforced the privilege of white invisibility.

One of the most distinctive qualities of ‘whiteness’ as it manifests in contemporary life is its ability to elude examination

As long as the black man is among his own, he will have no occasion, except in minor internal conflicts, to experience his being through others.

That sky was bluest when I could beat my mates at examination-time, or beat them at a foot-race, or even beat their stringy heads. Alas, with the years all this fine contempt began to fade; for the worlds I longed for, and all their dazzling opportunities, were theirs, not mine.

It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others

myself, after existing some twenty years, did not become alive until I discovered my invisibility.

My indefinite status was therefore a subject of speculation and a source of unease, especially among those whose attitudes and modes of conduct were at odds with the dictates of law and order. This made for a nodding relationship in which my neighbors kept their dis­tance and I kept mine.

It is an important mechanism, for it automatizes and disindividualizes power

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The bogus religiosity which now surrounds original 4s works of art, and which is ultimately dependent upon their market value, has become the substitute for what paintings lost when the camera made them reproducible

er than what he was being shown?' 'Yes,' he agreed. 'And imagine him being dragged forcibly away from t

There are no images that must resemble in every respect the objects they represent-for otherwise there would be no distinction between the object and its image-but that it is sufficient for them to resemble the objects in but a few ways."

We know for certain that it is the soul which has sensory awareness, and not the body.

You have only to consider that the differences a blind man notices between trees, rocks, water and similar things by means of his stick do not seem any less to him than the differences between red, yellow, green and all the other colours seem to us.

Therefore by our order you were cited before this Holy office,

in the event of your refusal, that an injunction should be imposed upon you by theCommissary of the Holy Office to give up the said doctrine and not to teach it to others, not to defend it, nor even to discuss it; andyour failing your acquiescence in this injunction, that you should be imprisoned