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‘You are not welcome here’: post-apartheid negrophobia and real aliens in Blomkamp’s District 9
When District 9 was released…the film was an immediate box office hit…This was much to the surprise of critics, reviewers and bloggers, who seemed astonished…that a science fiction film with this impact could originate from South Africa.
Files
The Informational University, the Uneven Distribution of Expertise and the Racialization of LabourThis essay revisits Marc Bousquet’s insight that the flexibilization of labour is at the centre of the informatization of the university as it embraces the force of neoliberal regimes. This orientation of labour around processes of informatization draws on work undertaken by various researchers…
Commons
Who gets ‘booked’: Super-Surveillance & the case of Ali DizaeiCould it be that racialized bodies who speak out of turn and engage in the renegade act of whistle blowing, especially risk feeling the cold wrath of administrative controls mangled in the terms of misconduct and professional integrity. Codes of…
Reviews
“To be loved, of course, and to be safe”Review of: Our Caribbean: A Gathering of Lesbian and Gay Writing from the Antilles, edited and with an introduction by Thomas Glave, Durham & London, Duke University Press, 2008.
Interviews
Mapping Fashion, Cities, Identities and the World Fashion ConquestIn her first solo show, WESSIELING presented ‘Mapping Motifs: An exploratory journey through fashion, cities and identities’ at the AVA Gallery in London. The work comprised six Chinese dresses (qipao); otherwise identical, each dress had the fashionable streets of different fashion metropolises printed on the textile.
