Fanon describes the settler town as one whose waste and decay are made invisible

Evidence

The settler’s town is a strongly-built town, all made of stone and steel. It is a brightly-lit town; the streets are covered with asphalt, and the garbage-cans swallow all the leavings, unseen, unknown and hardly thought about. The settler’s feet are never visible, except perhaps in the sea; but there you’re never close enough to see them. His feet are protected by strong shoes although the streets of his town are clean and even, with no holes or stones. The settler’s town is a well-fed town, an easy-going town; its belly is always full of good things. The settler’s town is a town of white people, of foreigners. — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 513

Categorization

• XREF: The invisibility of waste (‘garbage-cans swallow all the leavings’) connects to the reader’s silence/noise theme of concealed systems; also to White Noise’s consumerism of litter.