“…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)
front cover:
Tosh by Steve Gordon
back cover:
Kippie by Basil Breakey
Matter Mattering Matters: A Scienticity Reader Edited by Kabelo Malatsie & Lantian Xie (Mousse Publishing, 2025)
A world in abundance poses innumerable claims on the ‘stuff’ of science; observation, calculation, empiricism, verifiability, truth, objectivity—demands that expand in their readings beyond what is containable.
Matter Mattering Matters is a scienticity reader of artistic, philosophical, theoretical moves on the epistemic instruments we spin to intimate the universe—with contributions by Karen Barad, Simnikiwe Buhlungu, Nolan Oswald Dennis, Rohini Devasher & Sabih Ahmed, Merve Ertufan, Ivana Franke, Jackie Karuti, George Mahashe, Sidony O'Neal, Raqs Media Collective, Oscar Santillan, Bogosi Sekhukhuni, and Aarti Sunder.