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JWTC Blog: 07/01/15

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Wednesday, July 1, 2015. On “Emoji-Con: Coding the Economy of Affect” by Jenna Ng and David Theo Goldberg by Amber Reed. The logic of desire may be parsed as the ideology of power/knowledge. Top of Form Bottom of Form. I created this sentence using an algorithm from the University of Chicago’s “Write Your Own Academic Sentence” ( http:/ writing-program.uchicago.edu/toys/randomsentence/write-sentence.htm. Amber R. Reed, University of Pennsylvania. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Johannesburg, South Africa.

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JWTC Blog: 07/10/15

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Friday, July 10, 2015. Ackbar Abbas Wonders, “What Do We Do Now? 8221; by Rachel Greenspan. Riffing on Raymond Carver’s short story collection, Abbas’s synthesizing reflections on this year’s JWTC lectures poses the question, What do we talk about when we talk about happiness? Furthermore, how does the liberal conception of happiness as a human right obscure, undermine, or underestimate what Abbas calls the “politics of disappointment” in its material and libidinal forms? And why 3,001? 8221; by Rach.

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JWTC Blog: Consoling Objects/Disconsoling Worlds: A Response to Gabrielle Schwab's Talk on "Apocalyptic Endgames" by Timothy Wright

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Thursday, July 9, 2015. Consoling Objects/Disconsoling Worlds: A Response to Gabrielle Schwab's Talk on "Apocalyptic Endgames" by Timothy Wright. Timothy Wright WiSER, University of the Witwatersrand. Johannesburg, South Africa. View my complete profile. Unless otherwise indicated, all 2012 photographs here were taken by Annie Leatt. Performing and Storytelling Theory: A Future Perfect. On Behrooz Ghamaris Foucault, Spirituality, and . Maut ka Kua – The Death Well
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JWTC Blog: Vinh-Kim Nguyen on Biomedicine, Unhappiness, and the Epistemology of Crisis by Michelle Pentecost

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Sunday, July 12, 2015. Vinh-Kim Nguyen on Biomedicine, Unhappiness, and the Epistemology of Crisis by Michelle Pentecost. Johannesburg, South Africa. View my complete profile. Unless otherwise indicated, all 2012 photographs here were taken by Annie Leatt. Vinh-Kim Nguyen on Biomedicine, Unhappiness, and t. Johannesburg Workshop in Theory and Criticism. University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg 2050, South Africa. Phone: 27 11 7174406. Design by: the library. Site by Black Square.

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JWTC Blog: Performing & Storytelling Theory: A Future Perfect Possibility by Rachel Ceasar

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Thursday, July 9, 2015. Performing and Storytelling Theory: A Future Perfect Possibility by Rachel Ceasar. To give vitality and context to theory, to speak plainly from a place of intellectual generosity (instead of intellectual vomit)? Where are the Global South biologists, psychologists, journalists, and entrepreneurs with whom we can bounce ideas with, generate back and forth conversations, and possibly come up with solutions? Johannesburg, South Africa. View my complete profile. University of the Wit...

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JWTC Blog: On Behrooz Ghamari's "Foucault, Spirituality, and the Perils of Universal History" by Jorge Daniel Vásquez and Megan Eardley

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Thursday, July 9, 2015. On Behrooz Ghamari's "Foucault, Spirituality, and the Perils of Universal History" by Jorge Daniel Vásquez and Megan Eardley. What is the relationship between the specter (the ghost of the Iranian Revolution) and the ways we engage with revolution as either as a rupturing event or as an inheritance? Jorge Daniel Vásquez Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, Ecuador and Megan Eardley Princeton University School of Architecture. Johannesburg, South Africa. Johannesburg Work...

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JWTC Blog: 07/13/15

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Monday, July 13, 2015. Ghassan Hage “On Viability: Urban Jouissance in the streets of Beirut” By Noah Tamarkin. 8217; (There is no law and order in this nation! Second, how might closer consideration of the lifeworlds of differently situated diasporic subjects, especially in terms of gender and class, shift this account of the joyfulness of urban jouissance? Finally, how might various anthropological archives on diasporic culture and theories of viability further clarify and push Hage’s conclusions?

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JWTC Blog: 07/02/15

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Thursday, July 2, 2015. Resiliency (Neoliberal Happiness), Mourning, and Restoration" by Jigna Desai and Rani Neutill. On the Rhythms of Longing and Connectedness Neo Muyanga's "Tebello: A Tentative Operetta on Longing" by Jessica S. Ruthven. When we speak of “happiness,” what constitutes it, for whom, and how is it deployed conceptually and materially in particular places and times? Jessica S. Ruthven University of the Witwatersrand. Ananya Jahanara Kabir King's College London. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).

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JWTC Blog: 07/13/14

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Sunday, July 13, 2014. Revolting Music – A Brief Survey of South African Liberation Songs by Laura Efron. Neo Muyanga at the Rainbow Restaurant in Durban. C) Tana Nolethu Forrest. 191;Podremos seguir cantando en pos de una sociedad más equitativa? Can we keep singing towards a more equitable society? Laura Efron is an assistant professor in African History at the History Department in the University of Buenos Aires (UBA). She is writing an M.A dissertation on South African history. Design by: the library.

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JWTC Blog: 06/30/15

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Tuesday, June 30, 2015. From Rain-making to Hydrology: Public Healing to Public Health by Charne Lavery. From rain-making to hydrology; public healing to public health. On Julie Livingston’s talk “Rain-making and other forgotten technologies”. More generally, the telos of the developmentalist state is growth. But this, as the Botswana dam example suggests, should now be seen as ‘self-devouring growth’, a cancerous model on a human, local, and planetary scale. Or, to highlight the sense of embodied thirst...