politics of invisibility
“I don’t want to be present in the events that I participate in. I try to become invisible. I perceive myself as someone who shouldn’t exist.”
— Slavoj Žižek in Politics of Possibility: Encountering the Radical Imagination“I was terribly afraid of somehow being seen, met, recognized.”
— Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground“In a world full of danger, to be a potentially seeable object is to be constantly exposed to danger. Self-consciousness, then, may be the apprehensive awareness of oneself as potentially exposed to danger by the simple fact of being visible to others. The obvious defence against such a danger is to make oneself invisible in one way or another.”
― R.D. Laing, The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness“Invisible, as Music -”
― Emily Dickinson, This World is not Conclusion (373)