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  • Object Stories

    Posted: February 19, 2011, 2:26 am by keguro
    While my own writing is directed elsewhere, hang out with Wambui and her ongoing object image stories.

  • Baldwin Knot

    Posted: February 18, 2011, 5:23 am by keguro
    I have been staring at the quotation below for the past few weeks, unable to process how it means. Yes, of course, I have frames and paradigms through which to understand it, but they feel inadequate. So I will continue to stare. But there are a great many ways of outwitting oblivion, and to ask [...]

  • Seeing Colonial Africa (2)

    Posted: February 11, 2011, 3:04 pm by keguro
    My favorite so far:

  • Seeing Colonial Africa (one way)

    Posted: February 11, 2011, 2:59 pm by keguro
    The British National Archives have released (publicly) thousands of photographs featuring colonial Africa. Some that I find intriguing below:

  • Roses for Mubarak?

    Posted: February 6, 2011, 6:57 am by keguro
    The Egyptian revolution faces a terrible crisis in the U.S. media: it does not understand how to be a good reality show. It was exciting when it broke out and roses were handed out to twitter and facebook, the key front-runners in who was to woo the world. It got mildly more interesting when Anderson [...]

  • Mohamed Bouazizi and David Kato

    Posted: February 4, 2011, 8:57 pm by keguro
    I cannot help thinking of these two figures together, to ask what it means to “incite” a movement, to be understood as “representative.” And representative of what. By now, the stories are familiar. And, I want to suggest, equally random. Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire in December, a symbol of protest against a life [...]

  • (Un)Canonical

    Posted: February 3, 2011, 3:41 pm by keguro
    I find tedious and boring repeated arguments that young(er) scholars are unread and under-read. I find tedious and boring repeated arguments that young(er) scholars would be somehow better had they dedicated themselves to Shakespeare and Milton, Wordsworth and Coleridge, Melville and Hawthorne, Henry James and T.S. Eliot. I note that many of us still dedicate [...]
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