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aimé césaire – from “discourse on colonialism”
… [W]e must resign ourselves to the inevitable… that the bourgeoisie is condemned to become every day more snarling, more openly ferocious, more shameless, more summarily barbarous; that it is an...
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achille mbembe on the inadequacy of neoliberal definitions of humanity and...
Image: Antonia Mora The “human” in the South African context Whether there is anything which is still to be rediscovered or to be reanimated from the term “the human” takes on a paradoxical resonance...
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girl with cake, raak wys
Filed under: politics Tagged: capitalism, girl with cake, poverty porn, privilege, tokenism
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this is for zuma, ramaphosa and all the other rotten, murderous, lying...
When I try to write anything about Zuma and our government, police force and judiciary, and the foreign companies who have them in their thrall, only the foulest swear words I know will come out. So,...
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keynes on the evils of capitalism
Filed under: philosophy, politics Tagged: capitalism, john maynard keynes
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a nightmare
Just dreamed I was working at a mattress abattoir/factory in some long ago time and place. The mattresses were somehow living organisms. I had to use a guillotine and also sometimes a huge cleaver, if...
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imbokodo – the widows of marikana
Filed under: embodiment, environment, film, freedom, memory, politics, violence Tagged: capitalism, colonialism, exploitation, marikana, state violence, widows
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boat girls (2015)
Watch this short film, companion piece to the award-winning Keys, Money, Phone, starring Michelle Du Plessis, Amy Louise Wilson, and Sive Gubangxa. Director: Roger Young Producer: Shanna Freedman DOP:...
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susan buck-morss on work in the age of mechanical reproduction
Angelus Novus (Klee)/Walter Benjamin Susan Buck-Morss, writing in 2001 on Walter Benjamin’s philosophy of history, marked by the critique of progress in the name of a revolutionary time which...
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grimes – flesh without blood/life in the vivid dream (2015)
“I could live in the world just like a stranger I could tell you the truth or a lie I could tell you that people are good in the end But why, why would I? Angels will cry when it’s raining Tears that...
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charity hamilton – troubled bodies: metaxu, suffering and the encounter with...
Charity Hamilton The body is the canvas on which the female experience is painted and through which female identity is often understood. The female body is a slate on which a patriarchal story has been...
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wilhelm reich on the plague-ridden vs. the living (1945)
Society moulds human character and in turn human character reproduces social ideology en masse. Thus, in reproducing the negation of life inherent in social ideology, people reproduce their own...
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robert greene – the 48 laws of power, or, how to be a consummately oppressive...
Illustration by William Steig from Wilhelm Reich’s “Listen, Little Man” (1945) LAW 1 NEVER OUTSHINE THE MASTER Always make those above you feel comfortably superior. In your desire to please or impress...
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simone weil – algebra
Money, mechanization, algebra. The three monsters of contemporary civilization. Complete analogy. Algebra and money are essentially levellers, the first intellectually, the second effectively. About fifty...
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julia mary grey – mining but not eating (2016)
More of Julia’s work HERE. Check out the zine she made in 2013 from writing found on Fleurmach HERE.Filed under: art, politics, race, violence Tagged: capitalism, collage, exploitation, julia mary...
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“bared life”– looking at stereographs of south african miners produced in the...
This is a research paper I wrote in 2014 for “The Public Life of the Image”, an MPhil course offered through the Centre for African Studies at the University of Cape Town. “[T]he striking mine workers...
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cape town club, 10 september 2016
Filed under: photography, politics, race Tagged: capitalism
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south african universities in crisis: what we need to know (september 2016)
Filed under: freedom, history, politics, violence Tagged: #feesmustfall, capitalism, commodification of education, decolonise education, free education, state violence, structural oppression
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lucky dube – monster (2006)
From his album Respect, released in 2006, the year before he was killed during a hijacking. I had a dream last night One that will stay with me for a long time One that will stay with me, For as long...
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john perkins on empire’s power tools
“Fear and debt. The two most powerful tools of empire.” – John Perkins Image: #UmhlanganoFiled under: art, embodiment, freedom, history, philosophy, politics, race, violence Tagged: #feesmustfall,...
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tom waits – god’s away on business (2002)
Off the album Blood Money (Anti Records, 2002).Filed under: music Tagged: capitalism, depravity, tom waits
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arundhati roy – excerpt from ‘war talk’ (2003)
Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it. With our art, our music, our literature, our stubbornness, our joy, our...
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Article 1
Filed under: poetry, politics, violence Tagged: #feesmustfall, Busisiwe Seabe, capitalism, decolonisation, education, pablo neruda, police brutality, Shaeera Kalla, south africa, state repression
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john berger – ways of seeing (1972)
I cannot overstate how immensely John Berger contributed to awakening a critical understanding of Western cultural aesthetics and ethics in me. I feel deeply indebted. Here’s a wonderful recent...
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boyd rice – disneyland can wait (1990)
Filed under: music Tagged: amerikkka, capitalism, consumerism, misanthropy
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a perennial favourite
Filed under: freedom, gender, politics Tagged: capitalism, feminism, patriarchy, witchcraft
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capitalism’s priorities
Filed under: art, environment, politics, violence Tagged: capitalism, cartoon, Hugleikur Dagsson, money, protest, self-interest
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laurie penny – cybersexism: sex, gender and power on the internet (2013)
‘In ye olden tymes of 1987, the rhetoric was that we would change genders the way we change underwear,’ says Clay Shirky, media theorist and author of Here Comes Everybody.‘[But] a lot of it assumed...
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ani difranco – your next bold move (2001)
coming of age during the plague of reagan and bush watching capitalism gun down democracy it had this funny effect on me i guess i am cancer i am HIV and i’m down at the blue jesus blue cross hospital...
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johanna hedva – my body is a prison of pain so i want to leave it like a...
Event presented by the Women’s Center for Creative Work at Human Resources on October 7, 2015 Go here for a version of this speech adapted for Mask Magazine. Johanna Hedva’s Sick Woman Theory proposes...
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