Mark Fisher speaks to Bongani Kona about the social, economic and cultural totality of late capitalism, the pervasive cynicism in which we seem to be mired, the omnipresence of PR and the possibility of countering it all by re-igniting a belief in the public good.
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All That is Solid Melts into PR
By Chronic on March 19, 2015 in Books & Oration, Chronic, Faith & Ideology, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
THIRD TRANSITION
By Chimurenga on July 27, 2021 in Cash & Commerce, Chronic, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
Shoks Mzolo and Bongani Kona trace the path of South Africa’s transformation from a criminal apartheid state to a criminal neoliberal state
THE WAY I SEE IT – National Heroes Acre I
Bongani Kona Who or what haunts you? Do recurrences draw you back […]
No Congo, No Technology
By Chronic on May 29, 2017 in Arts & Pedagogy, Chronic, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
Post-disciplinary artist, Maurice Mbikayi, was born in Kinshasa, in 1974. His country […]
Politics of Betrayal
Using historian and author Jacob Dlamini’s latest work as a backdrop, Bongani […]
Boyhood and Transit
Reliving his personal journey to developing a passion for the game, Bongani […]
I Think I’ll Call it Morning
by Bongani Kona Penumbra Songeziwe Mahlangu Kwela Books, 2013 Sometime in […]
The Other Brother
by Bongani Kona. At the centre of Masande Ntshanga’s debut novel, The Reactive, […]
The Case of Sipho Mchunu
by Bongani Kona In her brilliant review of Didier Fassin’s book, When Bodies Remember: […]
A History of Blacks on the Green
In an attempt to dispel the myth that renders black golfers as […]