ABSTRACT
The opposite of the right to look is not censorship but 'visuality', that authority to tell the reader to move on, and that exclusive claim to be able to look. The autonomy claimed by the right to look is thus opposed by the authority of visuality. But the right to look came first and the people should not forget it. Visuality was held to be masculine, in tension with the right to look that has been variously depicted as feminine, lesbian, queer and/or trans. The autonomy claimed by the right to look has thus been, and continues to be, opposed by the authority of visuality. Thus, the physical regime of separation by the use of exclusion walls, as pioneered in Israel/Palestine, enforces a classification that is by self-definition legitimate and, therefore, right. Military discussion, both official and unofficial, has come to centre on the way in which such digital visualization has in some sense become the mission itself.
