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BOOK REVIEWS The Militant Listener: Reading Mongane Wally Serote’s Sikhahlel’ u-OR alongside Walter Benjamin’s Theses on the Philosophy of History The Militant Listener: Reading Mongane Wally ... as hard science, his political praxis consisted of psychosomatic sensitivity combined with scalpel-like decisiveness in his strategy.10 were you teaching us mathematics like a poem or a poem which
Patriotic Front (ZANU PF), had died in a mysterious fire at his farm in Beatrice, 60 km south west of Harare. Just four days later, on 20 August, amid public statements of grief from across the political ... article, I use Mujuru's death as way into discussing 'political accidents' in Zimbabwe's recent history, in order to explore the efficacies of rumours and the politics of uncertainty in relation to what I
Political Accidents in Zimbabwe Joost FonteinDepartment of Anthropology and Development Studies, University of Johannesburg IntroductionOn 16 August 2011 Zimbabwe awoke to the news that retired ... Patriotic Front (ZANU PF), had died in a mysterious fire at his farm in Beatrice, 60 km south west of Harare. Just four days later, on 20 August, amid public statements of grief from across the political
University of Cape Town's digital collection:51 Daniel Morolong's photographs tell the 'other' story of life in the black urban residential areas of the city, at a time when apartheid's political agendas ... , itself a political principle enshrined in the United Nations Charter of 1945, is the basis of the discourse and is descriptive of acts that are not undertaken through force or compulsion but are self
, resonates throughout the collection. The complexities of the political versus artistic nature of what we were involved with provide a setting for an anecdotal approach to what is part history, part biography ... set about creating an environment to record music that interested them and fell within a specific outsider/political aesthetic. Kadey's band, National Wake, had broken up after three years of successful
is, 'an ensemble of questions and answers around which a horizon of identifiable stakes (conceptual as well as ideological-political stakes) hangs'.4 This entanglement is evident in the ways in which ... continent and beyond, and sound practice is a bedrock of African aesthetic and political thought, as our opening salvo has demonstrated.6 Historically and historiographically, and although not always named as
departments of mathematics, computer science, and philosophy is then discussed. A few final words address the question of where logic might be going. ... set-theoretic constructions that had been applied to these which were unclear. The two inaugurated the philosophy of logicism. As we might put it now, set theory was to be given a foundational role, as
/Colonialidad), a critical thinking collective that originated in South America in the late 90s, that challenges western epistemology by criticising its rhetoric of modernity and engages in non-academic political ... engages in non-academic political and social activities. What is striking about the book is the clarity with which the known history and its hidden shadow are put in relation to one another, high-lighting
primarily secular material and transcendental (political and religious) aesthetic theories of music and the world. We can say Ibrahim's conversion to Islam, and even his sustained study of Japanese philosophy ... -0002-1382-8160 IIILecturer in the Political Studies department, University of Cape Town. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6271-8286 ABSTRACT This article aims to listen, read and move with the
readings that unsettle these subjectivities. Rather, they suggest social and political acts that presage and constitute a migrant citizenship, one that undermines the dichotomy of the rural (traditional) and ... social and political 'acts' and, together with Parsons, against the traditional and ritualistic rural 'ethnographic',2 proposing instead a much more nuanced interstitial revisioning of the subject across
systems, the science philosophy and logic principles do not play a preliminary role. Today, in many education systems the science of philosophical thinking and logic principles should play a preliminary ... at limitless logical conclusions. Introduction Although logic is a subdivision of philosophy due to its importance in scientific inferences it has its own status and importance in any reasoning for
things, a deep connection between Sobukwe and the social and political circle of liberal opponents to apartheid. This connection unsettles received ideas about the relationship between members of different ... members of different political formations in this case the Liberal Party and the Pan Africanist Congress during the liberation struggle, revealing a richer and more complex picture of affection and ally
photographer's portrait of Machel in Nachingwea in November 1974 before Independence. It traces an arc through the Popular Republic (1976-1990) from political revelation at its inception to the difficult years of ... many others in a kind of collective hallucination during the Popular Republic, caught up in the 'political sublime'. Later Kok Nam shows many signs of a photographic 'second thinking' that sought out a
photographer's portrait of Machel in Nachingwea in November 1974 before Independence. It traces an arc through the Popular Republic (1976-1990) from political revelation at its inception to the difficult years of ... many others in a kind of collective hallucination during the Popular Republic, caught up in the 'political sublime'. Later Kok Nam shows many signs of a photographic 'second thinking' that sought out a
scholars of southern Africa and Southeast Asia, this article summarily positions the concept of the 'decolonising camera' to describe both the act of documenting political decolonisation as well as the ways ... as the ways in which visual archives produced during decolonisation can contribute to new iconographies of the political, which are both factual and mythic at once. In April 1955
, temporalities, translations. Philosophy tends toward universality. History is wedded to particularity. How can their collaboration inform an idea of universal history that does not sacrifice ... historicises labour. She argues that three aspects - productivist, social, and individual - become entangled in the concept that political economists inherit and that, in turn, Marx will develop as the
, temporalities, translations. Philosophy tends toward universality. History is wedded to particularity. How can their collaboration inform an idea of universal history that does not sacrifice ... historicises labour. She argues that three aspects - productivist, social, and individual - become entangled in the concept that political economists inherit and that, in turn, Marx will develop as the
In spite of an extreme diversity in terms of institutional designs, political environment and economic predicaments, the global landscape of higher education systems nowadays faces common trends that ... , political conformity, thoughtlessness Introduction the uncompromisingly critical thinker, who neither superscribes his conscience nor permits himself to be terrorized into action, is in truth
, Gregory 1986 . Hobbesian Moral and Political Theory . Princeton: Princeton University Press. Lloyd-Thomas , David 1995 . Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Locke on Government . London: Routledge. Locke ... . Masters , Roger 1968 . The Political Philosophy of Rousseau . Princeton: Princeton University Press. Morris , C. W. 1999 . The Social Contract Theorists - Critical Essays on Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau
complex (and sometimes burdensome) political traditions and histories of thought concerned with uprising, rebellion and revolution, with bursts of poetry which, it seems, are meant to take flight off the ... difficult task, and it would be possible to focus this review article on any one of the three parts of this publication, which traverses the disciplines of history, visual history, philosophy, aesthetic