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Persistent looking in the space of appearance 23
What do we now see of the America where Laquan McDonald died? A chain
link fence. A billboard announcing to no one whatever real estate development is
intended to take over the space. A deserted bus stop. Weeds taking over the sidewalk.
The image conveys a terrible loneliness, the awful meaninglessness of the
scene. Corporate space dazzles with halogen lighting and video displays. Private
houses lurk behind their alarms and CCTV. In between is no one’s land, the killing
zone. This bleak capturing of United States reality is common to these videos that
have become the hallmark of US visual culture.
Consider this still from the police dash cam video that shows the scene where
Sandra Bland was stopped in Texas on July 10, 2015 for failing to signal a lane
change, a stop that was to cost her her life. 13 A country road. Trees. Evening. The
space is again featureless. A broad, deserted road with no visible markings. To
whom, we might ask, did Bland need to signal her lane change? Utility wires
dangle, awaiting the next storm to fall. The hazy white sky of climate-changed
Southern summer. It is no one’s responsibility to maintain or enhance non-private
property in the United States and so no one does. No one’s land. No one cares.
Someone dies. This is the space of non-appearance. In Waiting for Godot (whose
stage directions are evoked here), Lucky, a slave-driver, arrives instead of Godot
and terrorizes them. Today in no one’s land, America, the unlucky residents await
the arrival of the police at any time whatever, on any day whatever.
The emptiness of these American spaces is formally analogous to the minddestroying
cells of the prison-industrial complex. Shown on the next page is an
edited still from the video showing the tasering of Philip Coleman, an African American
graduate of the University of Chicago, who was incarcerated on December 12,
Figure 1.3 Redacted still from Sandra Bland dash cam video (07/10/2015). Released
into public domain by Texas Department of Public Safety (07/21/2015).