The Unwatchability of Whiteness: A New Imperative of Representation

Abstract

For, if that view is nowhere to be seen, not given in a single text, not recognizable as a representation, it is not that we—feminists, women— have not yet succeeded in producing it. It is, rather, that what we have produced is not recognizable, precisely, as a representation. For that “elsewhere” is not some mythic distant past or some utopian future history; it is the elsewhere of discourse here and now, the blind spots, or the space-off, of its representations.1