“The idea of quotidian as an ongoing practice rather than a completed action is certainly visible through several of these photographs . There is a power, rendered quiet as it may be, in simply existing when wielded by those living under the command of a colonial project.”
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51