“The self is both there and elsewhere, perceived in a troubling ubiquity and depth, at an uncertain distance: we see in a mirror, or rather the image seems to appear behind the material screen, so that the one who sees himself can question whether he sees the surface itself or across it,” and adds, “The reaction causes the sensation of an immaterial underworld to rise up beyond the mirror and invites the gaze to a cross-over of appearances”

Achille Mbembe
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