‘Sensory Experiments, Sensory Orders, and Aesthetic Education’, by Premesh Lalu.
Erica Fretwell's Sensory Experiments: Psychophysics, Race, and the Aesthetics of Feeling (2020) raises crucial questions about the making of a concept of difference through marshaling the senses to the ends of a sensory order in postbellum United States....
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'Unseating Mastery: The University and the Promise of the New’, by Premesh and Erich Hörl
This conversation between Erich Hörl and Premesh Lalu draws on their extended conversation on efforts to link discordant temporal and spatial encounters with the idea of the university and how, more importantly, to care for the future of its educational responsibilities....
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Waystations of Desire: From Infrastructural Critique to Anticolonial Praxis, by Nancy Luxon
Modernity finds itself in a dissociated state, that is, unable to attach its social energies and political desires to a political vision that resonates and coheres....
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The CHR is pleased to announce that three documentaries produced as part of the Documentary Film course will show at this years 20th Annual Encounters South African International Film Festival.
Join the NRF-DST Flagship on Critical Thought in African Humanities, University of the Western Cape and Wits University Press for the launch of historian, Jon Soske’s
The most recent very significant threshold to note is that the Greatmore building in Woodstock, which will house the Laboratory of Kinetic Objects, has finally...
This past month the CHR's MA Fellow, Zuko Wonderfull Sikhafungana was invited to be a judge at the Third Annual Thola Drama Festival at the Lwandle Community Hall in Strand.