The Israeli military’s occupation of Palestinian territory relies heavily on its ability to shape the visual environment and set the terms of how Palestinians may see and be seen. However, the relationship between violent occupation and violent visualities has yet to be fully theorized. This article gathers several conceptual strands—biopolitics, visual biopolitics, and necropolitics—to theorize what I term “visual necropolitics.” Visual necropolitics is proffered as an analytical tool that furthers our understanding of the violent visual regulations that enable and sustain the conditions for the illegal occupation of Palestinian lands and the subjugation of the Palestinian people. To illustrate this, three distinct but related forms of visual violence will be analyzed: the deliberate infliction of ocular trauma through targeting of the eyes, the strategy of maiming in order to prevent telegenic death, and the imposition of visual regulations to govern the death of captured bodies. This theorization allows us to move beyond considering the politics of sight, vision, and representation only as an artifact of the colonial power relations that govern life and death in Palestine, towards understanding how visual violence is a constitutive dimension of occupation. Not only does colonial occupation use visual violence, but it cannot be sustained without it.

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视觉死亡政治学和视觉暴力：死亡、视觉和巴勒斯坦主权控制的理论化

以色列军队对巴勒斯坦领土的占领在很大程度上依赖于其塑造视觉环境和设定巴勒斯坦人如何看待和被看待的能力。然而，暴力占领和暴力视觉之间的关系尚未得到充分的理论化。本文收集了几个概念——生命政治学、视觉生命政治学和死亡政治学——来理论化我所说的“视觉死亡政治学”。视觉死亡政治学作为一种分析工具，可以加深我们对暴力视觉法规的理解，这些法规为非法占领巴勒斯坦土地和镇压巴勒斯坦人民提供了条件并维持了这些条件。为了说明这一点，将分析三种不同但相关的视觉暴力形式：通过瞄准眼睛故意造成眼外伤，为了防止上镜死亡而实施残害策略，并实施视觉管制来控制捕获尸体的死亡。这种理论化使我们能够超越将视觉、视觉和再现的政治仅仅视为统治巴勒斯坦生死的殖民权力关系的产物，去理解视觉暴力如何成为占领的一个构成维度。殖民占领不仅使用视觉暴力，而且没有视觉暴力就无法维持。理解视觉暴力如何成为占领的一个组成部分。殖民占领不仅使用视觉暴力，而且没有视觉暴力就无法维持。理解视觉暴力如何成为占领的一个组成部分。殖民占领不仅使用视觉暴力，而且没有视觉暴力就无法维持。