ABSTRACT
This essay adopts Foucault’s thinking as a basis to deepen the notion of the “right to look” while claiming a position in the debate on “how to see”. After contextualizing the subject, I review two specific texts that criticize Foucault: Can the Subaltern Speak? by Gayatri Spivak, and Necropolitics by Mbembe. From the first, I extract the general idea that the right to look is the opposite of the right to “see without being seen”. From the second, I deduce an opacity and invisibility management function that the necropolitics exerts in conjunction with biopolitics. Finally, I argue that, if all “seeing” depends on “not seeing”, the right to look demands a position that is always to be built.
Visuality; Subordination; Necropolitics; Invisibility