Reading colonial sources requires disorienting oneself rather than finding stable meaning

Evidence

You can only start seeing—this was Freud’s most basic insight— when you know that your vision is troubled, fallible, off-key. The only viable way of reading is not to find, but to disorient, oneself. — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 699

Categorization

• APHORISMS: A methodological advice-aphorism: genuine seeing requires knowing one’s own vision is fallible; reading means disorienting rather than confirming oneself.
• XREF: connects to: The reader’s insistence on remaining himself blocks genuine reading — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 1234; Speculative reading demands the self lose form then recover it — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 1224