The colonial gaze was produced by specific technologies and capitalism.
Evidence
This style of imagining did not come out of thin air. It was the product of the technologies of navigation, astronomy, horology, surveying, photography and print, to say nothing of the deep driving power of capitalism. — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 679
Categorization
- XREF: Technologies of navigation/timing/print as preconditions of the state’s imagination connects to Anderson’s earlier argument on print-capitalism and to Innis’s bias of communication. — connects to: The colonial state’s thinking worked as a classificatory grid plus serialization. — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 678; Capitalism conserving non-capitalist modes produces racial and colonial ideologies.; Capitalist accumulation was built on colonial conquest and enslavement. — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the…, 82 (+4 more)
Broader Connections
- Capitalism conserving non-capitalist modes produces racial and colonial ideologies.
#expands(0.85) - Colonial filing systems themselves produced methods of domination.
#exemplifies(0.80) - Capitalism reproduces itself by drawing civil and cultural life into conformity with its needs
#expands(0.80) - Technical instruments carry negative valence rooted in the colonial situation
#expands(0.78) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 266 - Colonial selfhood is constituted through the violent gaze of the Other.
#expands(0.75) - Capitalist accumulation was built on colonial conquest and enslavement.
#expands(0.72) — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the…, 82