..."The work of looking for profit without seeing the connectedness and history of a place emanates from the colonial project. Discussions of housing crises on Turtle Island are fundamentally about settler occupation and the expansions of capitalist colonialist logic. Narratives emanating from The Doctrine of Discovery and Terra Nullius are fables of the speculator. Australian Aboriginal Feminist, Aileen Moreton Robertson writes about how the state itself is a white possession, and the accompanying social structures sidestep and invizibilize indigenous sovereignties and civil rights. Speculators hold a mindset that understands the world as sets of objects for their personal consumption. This attitude is a foundation element of White Supremacy. So, the Speculator's Gaze is the tip of the spear of colonialist violence. Opportunistic settlers of varying means get ahead by learning to see with the Speculator's Gaze, and by doing so advance the logic and practice of colonization."
- Zachary Gough is a funded entitled artist and anti-white political commentator currently agitating/exhibiting at Mount Allison University in Sackville New Brunswick in October 2025, Purdy Crawford Centre for the Arts.
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