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Heidegger, Schapiro, Derrida: the three-in-one, and a pair of boots
Get PDFJacques Derrida’s (2000 [1987]) meditation on “inside and outside” in his paper “Restitutions of the truth in pointing (Pointure)”, and his reflections on “the frame” in his paper “The parergon” (1979), are brought together here in a consideration of representations of the Trinity. The conception of the three-personed god was at the centre of theological dispute in the early modern era, and the aesthetic traditions play a major part in constituting an icon that has allowed the Trinity to be a founding principle of Christian belief, despite all of its contradictions.
“Our Caster” and “The Blade Runner”: Improper’ corporealities cripqueering the post/apartheid body politic
Get PDFCaster Semenya and Oscar Pistorius were each selected to carry the South African national flag at the ceremonies marking the opening and closing of the London 2012 Olympic Games. Through this spectacle their individual bodies both represented, and somatechnically enfleshed, the post/apartheid body politic. Semenya and Pistorius are globally recognisable and influential figures who inhabit, respectively, sex/gender variant and dis/abled bodies. Popular discourses about, and representations of, their bodies are characterised by a metaphoricity of bodily integrity. This metaphorical structure is predicated upon, and seeks to (re)secure, an assumption of compulsory somatic integrity. Numerous scholars, Jessica Cadwallader and Nikki Sullivan among them, have demonstrated how these ideas about corporeal integrity also condition metaphors of the body politic. Drawing on insights gleaned from somatechnics and crip theory I argue that Semenya’s and Pistorius’ bodies form an assemblage on the one hand, and explore how this assemblage is connected to the post/apartheid body politic on the other. In doing so I explain how a form of corporeal nationalism works with, and through, the athletes’ bodies to ensure that bodily integrity is a precondition for entry into the body politic. I further speculate on how the Semenya/Pistorius assemblage resists this manoeuvre by indexing an alternative metaphoricity of embodiment that cripqueers an idea(l) of the post/apartheid body politic.
‘Youth Under Fire’: A Socio-Statistical Analysis of the Musketry Results of Cape Province Cadet Corps 1941-1960
Get PDFCadet training consisted primarily of physical fitness, military drills, and musketry. Of these activities rifle shooting is the most technical and useful military skill, with cadet participation signalling the youth’s wilful and deliberate self-militarisation. When South Africa declared war on Germany on 6 September 1939, the Union Defence Force (UDF) expanded the cadet quotas substantially in anticipation for future mobilisation. Shooting competitions took on a new urgency and significance. Teams from cadet detachments and rifle associations regularly competed in provincial, national and international shooting competitions. In South Africa, many cadet rifle competitions trace their origins to before union in 1910. The Watts Cup and Empire League Challenge (ELC) originated as challenges for cadet detachments in the Cape Colony, with cadet detachments competing in the same format from 1939 to 1960. The article presents data from the complete results of the Watts Cup and Empire League Challenge from 1941 until 1960, and data relating to support for the war among cadet officers. Analysis of this data reveals fault lines in the response of the white youth of the Cape Province from mobilisation for war to the aftermath of the pivotal 1948 elections
Do orders of law enforcement officials supersede the provisions of the Constitution and justify a command of ‘skop, skiet en donder’? Khosa & Others v Minister of Defence & Military Defence & Military Veterans & Others (21512/2020) [2020] ZAGPPHC 147
Get PDFIn Khosa and others v Minister of Defence, the High Court was tasked with assessing whether the use of force by Police and Military personnel was lawful and justifiable in enforcing the COVID-19 Lockdown Regulations. The Court declared that when executing Regulations developed to address the COVID-19 pandemic, law enforcement officers are bound by the Constitution, the law, and international law. Mr Collins Khosa was accused by members of the Police and South African National Defence Force (SANDF) of having violated the Lockdown Regulations. Consequently, Mr Khosa was assaulted in his home by military personnel assigned to enforce the COVID-19 Lockdown Regulations. Hours after the assault Mr Khosa succumbed to his injuries and died. The Court found that the use of force against Mr Khosa was unlawful and violated his fundamental constitutional rights. The court emphasised the significance of protecting constitutional rights, especially during times of a national state of disaster, and emphasised that the Police and Military forces must act within the bounds of the Constitution and respect the rights of all individuals. Additionally, the Court highlighted numerous inflammatory public comments made by the Minister of Defence that impacted the enforcement of the Regulations by law enforcement. The Court specified the measures that the Minister of Defence and Police had to implement to effectively investigate the assault on Mr Khosa and prevent further instances of abuse at the hands of Police and Military personnel enforcing the COVID-19 Lockdown Regulations
The Cadastral Map as Imperial Ruin: All She Surveys: Stairways and Ruins
No full textWhile living and studying in New Zealand, I encountered a derelict Victorian fountain at Wairongoa Springs on the Taieri Plain near Dunedin. Initially struck by the romance of the scene, I soon found this colonial relic quite unsettling. I explored the intersecting object histories of this fountain through the metaphors of ruin, ruination and the gaze in a Master of Fine Arts degree obtained from the Dunedin School of Art (Otago Polytechnic) in 2023. Now, back in South Africa, I reflect on All She Surveys, an installation work from Mother’s Ruin, the exhibition component of my MFA. I reflect on my own work and process and the similarities between South Africa and New Zealand using the cross-cutting themes of colonisation, expropriation and exploitation of natural resources through cadastral grids of property delineation. I invite readers to think alongside Ann Laura Stoler as she introduces the concept of enduring imperial debris and considers the notion of ruin, both as noun and verb, as a legacy of colonisation and empire. I interpret these legacies as imperial debris and explore their role within Slavoj Žižek’s framework of objective violence. My work aims to offer a new, oblique vantage point on this matrix of violence – these ruins that continue to ruin us
Product design and action research: the lnterdesign 2005 workshop on Sustainable Rural Transport
No full textExamining the viability of rural manufacturing, the existing structures of rural manufacturing practices reflect the prevailing conditions under which production takes place and therefore contain features which are fundamentally appropriate to their context. An approach to intervention is therefore proposed which capitalizes on existing skills, practices and social relationships, and it is shown that by working with existing structures and skills rather than undermining them, the sustainability of the enterprises which are developed is greatly enhanced
