“…The struggle of black people inevitably appear in an intensely cultural form because the social formation in which their distinct political traditions are now manifest has constructed the arena of politics on ground overshadowed by centuries of metropolitan capitalist development, thereby denying them recognition as legitimate politics. Blacks conduct a class struggle in and through race. The BC of race and class cannot be empirically separated, the class character of black struggles is not a result of the fact that blacks are predominantly proletarian, thought this is true…”- (Frank Talk Staff Writers in ‘Azania Salutes Tosh’ – circa 1981)
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front cover:
Tosh by Steve Gordon
back cover:
Kippie by Basil Breakey
Ghosts, spectres, revenants. Hauntology as a means to think and feel future (Iwalewa Books, 2020)
Hauntology as a successful academic concept holds a pun on the idea of ‘ontology’. It denotes a temporal nonlinearity, the persistence and lingering of failed, of omitted, often utopian, ideas that also formed radical visions of futures and opens a field to discuss presence and absence, visibility and invisibility. The present we live is embedded in the presence of ghosts and specters, and the traces of imaginations of different times and spaces may become visible and doable.
The scholars and artists contributing to this volume discuss these conceptual outlines in a series of transdisciplinary contributions. Art in its various forms is the integral part of these hauntological engagements.
Edited by Katharina Fink, Marie-Anne Kohl, Nadine Siegert