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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
margins of the discipline, reduced to a few papers in second-rate journals, public conferences or folk philosophy, the Æ-Theory has certainly consolidated a school of physicists around it, publishing in ... Newton’s different, almost opposite, ethers to fill the emptiness that the mechanical philosophy of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries had brought with it, might also be highlights in the story. Yet
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
is said to have revived the political philosophy by A Theory of Justice. In this book, primarily based on Kantian noumenal self and social contract theory, he tried to formulate a highly complicated ... matters. But, day by day, new developments in social and political milieu unprecedentedly changed the agenda of political philosophy. As modernism fades away, postmodernism has emerged with a bunch of new
local, ethnic, historical, socio-political, and religious characteristics that make it different from other societies in certain important respects. Therefore, any civil religion that emerges in one ... Britain; Coronation; Queen; Armistice Day; Nationalism; Political Religion - Background of the Problem In 1967 the American sociologist Robert Bellah wrote the essay “Civil Religion in America.” This
further argues, however, that every society has its own unique set of local, ethnic, historical, socio-political, and religious characteristics that make it different from other societies in certain ... Britain; Coronation; Queen; Armistice Day; Nationalism; Political Religion - Background of the Problem In 1967 the American sociologist Robert Bellah wrote the essay “Civil Religion in America.” This
local, ethnic, historical, socio-political, and religious characteristics that make it different from other societies in certain important respects. Therefore, any civil religion that emerges in one ... Britain; Coronation; Queen; Armistice Day; Nationalism; Political Religion - Background of the Problem In 1967 the American sociologist Robert Bellah wrote the essay “Civil Religion in America.” This
/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
present day. During this period, its most elementary definition which dates back to atomism in ancient Greek philosophy, that of a spatially localizable discrete entity, has experienced different challenges ... in natural philosophy and science. Such challenges—wave–particle duality being probably the best example—in fact led the physical concept of particle to undergo a significant evolution across time
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
away’. There was no place for aristocratic quarks in this philosophy, to which many—perhaps most—particle physicists then subscribed. 3 The birth of quarks At the end of his paper on quarks [ 44 ... quizzed him in 1961), but given his strong support for the bootstrap philosophy and the idea of nuclear democracy, he would presumably have quickly dismissed it. In any case, Serber’s memoirs continue: ‘A
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
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
philosophy and western science. He was thus taken aback when the Soviets unexpectedly appointed him their national representative to the seventh Solvay Physics Conference in Brussels, October 22–29, 1933. In ... the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy” [ 41 ]. I looked through the m.s. and graphs and mailed them to Tate special delivery. You will get the card from Tate acknowledging receipt
classical and modern scholars of Islamic studies, and a number of studies appeared on his works on jurisprudence, theology, and philosophy. Yet despite his being one of the most famous Qurʾānic commentators ... with an Islamic education, he was the first intellectual to exploit the rich heritage of ancient and Islamic philosophy to interpret the Qurʾān. He was also the first Sunnī theologian to develop a
classical and modern scholars of Islamic studies, and a number of studies appeared on his works on jurisprudence, theology, and philosophy. Yet despite his being one of the most famous Qurʾānic commentators ... with an Islamic education, he was the first intellectual to exploit the rich heritage of ancient and Islamic philosophy to interpret the Qurʾān. He was also the first Sunnī theologian to develop a
