Laugh it Off
From: “Mandisi Majavu” To: chimurenga@panafrican.co.za Subject: laugh it off/young capitalists/samething? Below is an interview with Justin Nurse (founder of Laugh It Off). I wrote to him a few months ago, asking Nurse to clarify a few contradictions…, and also with an aim of trying to find out more about his company – meaning what they […]
Interactions: A Strategy of Difference and Repetition
Interactions Interactions is an edited excerpt from filmmaker, writer and artist Aryan Kaganof’s new short film of the same name. Originating out of a commission by the Theater Institut Netherlands – which wanted a “film report” on a meeting of art professionals – Kaganof created a satire of bureaucracy, cultural administration and distorted power balances. […]
The Power of Wikipedia: Legitimacy and Control
The most astonishing global source of knowledge has the power to act like a brand new nation. Then why does it behave like an old one? In this hard-hitting account of Wikipedia from the ‘South’, Iolanda Pensa pulls no punches. 1. This is Wikipedia © Maha Maamoun, Going Places: A Project for Public Busses, Le Caire, […]
The story of a South African firm
In this edited extract from their book, Ethnicity, Inc., Jean and John L. Comaroff, explore the epic story that is the rise, and rise and rise again of the business of the Royal Bafokeng Nation. The Bafokeng, a Tswana nation situated in the North West province of South Africa, are a people made wealthy […]
Guilt Trips
Kai Friese interrogates the colonial fantasy that lives on in the sententious philanthropy of ethical tourism. Escape Narratives Suspicion in the Oriental is a sort of malignant tumour, a mental malady, that makes him self-conscious and unfriendly suddenly; he trusts and mistrusts at the same time in a way the Westerner cannot comprehend. It […]