ABSTRACT

In this paper, the concept of white hallucination is developed through the prism of a recent debate about the permissibility of defending colonialism. The latter is, unsurprisingly, steeped in colonial nostalgia and a defence of free speech. These arguments, however, have to be related to the operation of whiteness itself. White hallucinations concern the psychopathological tendency of whiteness to incessantly reinscribe its mastery of the world. Cases for defending colonialism expose whiteness as a delusion that is reasserted by demanding ‘proof’ against its normativity while simultaneously discarding alternative knowledge claims made by testimonial epistemologies of colonial subjugation and dehumanization. The argument further unravels whiteness as a position-without-positionality that seeks to maintain its normativity and supremacy by aligning itself with rationality, objectivity and humanity as such and subjugating non-white perspectives, experiences and knowledges to the spectre of nonexistence.

摘要

在本文中，白人幻觉的概念是通过最近一场关于捍卫殖民主义的允许性辩论的棱镜发展起来的。毫不奇怪，后者沉浸在殖民怀旧和捍卫言论自由中。然而，这些论点必须与白度本身的运作有关。白人幻觉涉及白人的精神病理学倾向，不断地重新记录其对世界的掌握。捍卫殖民主义的案例将白人视为一种错觉，通过要求对其规范性提出“证据”来重申这种错觉，同时摒弃由殖民征服和非人化的见证认识论提出的替代知识主张。