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  • Telling?

    Posted: January 30, 2010, 9:25 pm by keguro
    A chance remark catches my eye. On what the Kenyan media term a “miracle” deal on the draft constitution, Charity Ngilu comments, “If we failed, the people would take over like they did in early 2008.” She is right, the government “failed” in 2008. But, it seems, the government also “failed” to “control” the people. It [...]

  • More Notes on Queer Africa: Toward an Intellectual Project

    Posted: January 11, 2010, 8:03 am by keguro
    I sketch, here, a series of notes, a number of interlinked ideas arising from the conjunction, or frottage, of two ongoing projects. It thinks through the “figure” of the homosexual within non-U.S. and non-European locations. Through Foucault, we have learned to think of the “emergence” or “appearance” of “the homosexual” or homosexual-like figures as central [...]

  • xyz sexual minority orientation studies

    Posted: January 8, 2010, 2:30 pm by keguro
    A stray comment on an article in the NYT prods, not quite enough to grate.. The article itself replays a long-standing debate on the relevance of higher education, in general, and of the liberal arts, in particular. In such debates, and they are persistent, versions of gender studies and minority studies are always the worst [...]

  • Post-Humor, or Without Evidence

    Posted: January 2, 2010, 7:02 am by keguro
    I have no evidence to support this claim. And it might already have been made. By several others in a range of forums. But one “returns” to blogging in dribs and drabs, a word here and there, a stray thought caught as it heads to “delete permanently.” And might be rescued. And “theorized” (humanists, someone [...]
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