Blogs about: Achille Mbembe

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Afrique 3.0, Version 2.02 comments

Gregory Mann wrote 1 month ago: Flying back from Dakar and Bamako to my home near “Little Senegal,” I snatched up Courri … more →

Tags: Featured, History 2, media, Afrique 3.0, Afua Hirsch, Axelle Kabou, Binyavanga Wainaina, boubacar boris diop, Breyten Breytenbach

Conspicuous Destruction - by Megan Jones

François wrote 2 months ago: Conspicuous Destruction When we think of waste, we imagine opportunities missed, lives ruined or env … more →

Tags: Reading Group, Culture, Ecocriticism, Environment, Environmetal Justice, izikhothane, johannesburg, Literature, mumbai

How the Africa-China romance is killing Europe20 comments

Serginho Roosblad wrote 2 months ago: In the past decade the international media first focused on China’s economic boom, which was then fo … more →

Tags: Featured, Journalism, media, Opinion, Television, Africa, China, Economics, Guangzhou

[Conversation] Ntone Edjabe: By Breaking the Divide between the Public and the Private, he [Fela] Expanded our Vocabulary of Resistance – the Musician was no Longer Simply an Entertainer. 1 comment

bakwamagazine wrote 9 months ago:   “By developing editorial projects together and assisting each other in areas such as distribu … more →

Tags: Online Content, Cameroon, Dzekashu MacViban, Conversations, Douala, pop culture, Politics, South Africa, Fela Kuti

Aesthetics of the Phallus5 comments

Neelika Jayawardane wrote 11 months ago: Yesterday, Goodman Gallery emailed a press release to its huge recipient list, announcing a “joint s … more →

Tags: Featured, Journalism, Opinion, media, South Africa, David Goldblatt, Jacob Zuma, ANC, City Press

Achille Mbembe at the Tate Modern4 comments

Orlando Reade wrote 1 year ago: Over the last six months, the Tate Modern in London has held Topology: Spaces of Transformation, a s … more →

Tags: Featured, Art, Politics, media, South Africa, David Harvey, tate modern, Oscar Guardiola River, Drucilla Cornel

Discours de Sarkozy à Dakar: le Début de la Recolonisation?

humilityjoy wrote 1 year ago: Nicolas Sarkozy, by Zapiro (source Grigrinews.com) Avec les élections présidentielles en France, et … more →

Tags: Great Moments, FRANCAFRIQUE, élections françaises, elections presidentielles en France, French elections, Discours de Sarkozy a Dakar, sarkozy à dakar, Nicolas Sarkozy

Transnational Celebrity Activism

Charn wrote 1 year ago: Edmund Burke was said to have coined the term the ‘fourth estate’ in a parliamentary deb … more →

Tags: Politics & Pop Culture, Blood Diamond, conflict diamond, Sue Tait, Mark Wheeler, celebrity activists, Edmund Burke

The most influential African thinker alive38 comments

Sean Jacobs wrote 1 year ago: At the end of 2011 we contemplated asking you, dear reader, who you think was the most influential A … more →

Tags: Featured, Opinion, Politics, Issa Shivji, J M Coetzee, Jean Comaroff, John Comaroff, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Mahmood Mamdani

Review. John Akomfrah's 'The Nine Muses'1 comment

Basia Lewandowska Cummings wrote 1 year ago: John Akomfrah’s new film, The Nine Muses, continues the powerful cine-cultural tradition inaug … more →

Tags: Featured, film, media, johannesburg, John Akomfrah, The Nine Muses

The Year of Frantz Fanon3 comments

Tom Devriendt wrote 1 year ago: Four moments that stirred heated debate in France this year were the cases against rapper Youssoupha … more →

Tags: Opinion, Politics, Algeria, Black Skin White Mask, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, DSK, Fanon's Post-Liberation Nightmare, France, frantz fanon

Spaces of Transformation

rikowski wrote 1 year ago: Space SPACES OF TRANSFORMATION Topology Spaces of Transformation The Vast Space-Time of Revolutions … more →

Tags: Politics, Geography 2, Globalisation, Marxism, Anti-Capitalism, revolution, David Harvey, Doreen Massey, Becoming

Spaces of Transformation

rikowski wrote 1 year ago: Space SPACES OF TRANSFORMATION Topology Spaces of Transformation The Vast Space-Time of Revolutions … more →

Tags: Politics, Geography 2, Globalisation, Marxism, Anti-Capitalism, revolution, David Harvey, Doreen Massey, Becoming

Cameroon and the President1 comment

Tom Devriendt wrote 1 year ago: Cameroonians went to the polls today. In an interview with SlateAfrique, Achille Mbembe (b. 195 … more →

Tags: Journalism, Politics, Paul Biya, Cameroon, Cameroun

Notes on the Sources of Art1 comment

chaikadai wrote 1 year ago: by Antonio Dias, Rhode Island This piece has grown during the writing, pushed ahead by the ambition … more →

Tags: Blog, Ambiguity, Arts, Berger, Cave Painting, Cubism, History, paint, Perception

Notes on the Sources of Art3 comments

Antonio Dias wrote 1 year ago: This piece, a cross-post from Horizons of Significance, has grown during the writing, pushed ahead b … more →

Tags: essays, On Painting, Art, Painting, The Plenitude of Being, writing, Perception, paint, john berger

Notes on the South African Experiment

Tom Devriendt wrote 1 year ago: Achille Mbembe (the links are to previous references of Mbembe on this blog) gave a lecture at the B … more →

Tags: Featured, South Africa, Birkbeck School of Law

Achille Mbembe – Democracy and the Ethics of Mutuality: Notes from the South African Experiment

Keep on Keeping On wrote 2 years ago: Stellenbosch Literary Project Report by Lucy Graham, Additional reporting by Leon de Kock In his fir … more →

Tags: The politics of politics, Franzt Fanon, Stellenbosch Literary Project

Literature

ulib4 wrote 2 years ago: Time Action Vision by Christian Holler In Time Action Vision, Christian Holler, of the interdiscipli … more →

Tags: Education 2, History, Lecture, Cultural, Arts, Tariq Ali, Paul Gilroy, Jean-Pierre Gorin, Lawrence Grossberg


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