“Three generations of white South African men were bound together at that table. Vermuelen was the first generation. He defined Africa, made it safe for Basson to defile. I was the last generation, the last to grow up in segregated neighborhoods. Between us was the silent photograph of Wouter Basson. Like a distant father, Basson was absent at the dining table.” – Henk Rossouw (Hole in the White ‘Hood). Also Mahmood Mamdani on Bantu Education at UCT, Gael Reagon on sisterhood, Binyavanga Wainaina on dis-covering Kenya, Gaston Zossou on African intellectuals and more…
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Strange Fruit by Lewis Allen
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.