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The image itself is not explained, but by now in the essay, I assume it is an idealized version of the university's image of itself: clean lines, modern, light/white-filled open space where people work or walk and talk through a thoroughfare of protected intellectual space. The text juxtaposes two quotes from the adminstration: one that idealizes a benevolent relation to the broader community and another that describes the incarceration of alleged gang members from this broader community.

I think the caption should introduce this image, where it exists within the university of itself, and do a little interpretive work that then can help us digest the relation of this space to the chosen quotes and subsequent description. As it stands now, the viewer is not totally sure how the image relates to the text and has to do some guesswork. I would also like to see the "toxic" element a little bit more.

It's not clear where the image comes from-- it looks like it would appear on a brochure or a website-- definitely promotional. I'm guessing it was not taken by the ethnographer. These would be interesting details. The aesthetic is interesting-- some of the elments I mentioned in the first comment-- and I would like this ethnographer to provide me some interpretation of the aesthetic and why this image illustrated best the argument they are making. 

I think the image is good as is, just more connection to the caption. 

The visualization argues that the relational form of Columbia university to its surrounding community is toxic. The terms for unpacking this include "restriction" "policing" "dangerous" "disposable" and "useful"-- so here toxicity is configured around spatialized policing and exclusion, coupled with strategic, idealized, and controlled inclusion. I think the author could takes this further and create a really intriguing conceptualization through toxicity here... the dots just need to be conencted. The inclusion/exclusion simultaneity seems key.