Anne McClintock’s “The Angel of Progress” explains and draws on her idea that the word “post-colonialism” should not be used for multiple reasons. One of her arguments against the word, is that it “signals a reluctance to surrender the privilege of seeing the world in terms of a singular and ahistorical abstraction” (McClintock 1187). She explains the word “post-colonialism” is rarely ever used to explain the extremely important multiplicity of history. By using this term as a singular description of history, it wipes away the ability to view the world through eyes which see multiple distinct variations. McClintock mentions the panoptic tendency that underlines the word “post-colonialism.” The theory of the Panopticon explains her claim as
