To See in the Dark: a Conversation Omar Zahzah and the Center for Convivial Research and Autonomy

Join Nicholas Mirzoeff, poet Omar Zahzah, and comrades from the Center for Convivial Research and Autonomy as they discuss To See in the Dark: Palestine and Visual Activism Since October 7 on Sunday, March 23, 6:00 pm. To see Palestine is to see the world. Since October 7th 2023, the forces of racial capitalism and settler colonialism have become all too visible in Israel's genocidal war on Gaza.Visual culture theorist Nicholas Mirzoeff, visiting from New York, is joined by local Palestinian poet-scholar-activist Omar Zahzah, author of the forthcoming Terms of Servitude: Zionism, Silicon Valley, and Digital/Settler-Colonialism in the Palestinian Liberation Struggle. Comrades from the Center for Convivial Research and Autonomy will be sitting in.

In To See In the Dark, Nicholas Mirzoeff explores how images, and especially video, viewed outside Palestine enabled a dramatic switch in public opinion, leading to a global uprising against the genocide. In this groundbreaking analysis, he connects the personal and the political through his own anti-Zionist Jewishness and its histories of violence. The result is a new collective and anti-colonial way of seeing, intersecting online and embodied experience.