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New documentary explores disturbing similarities between U.S. and apartheid South Africa Elon Musk’s rise has put South Africa in focus. A new film explores how bigotry spread in his home country — and offers warnings about the United States as well.

Recommended: Ernest Cole documentary explores disturbing similarities between U.S. and apartheid South Africa
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#uppityafricans enjoying a smile! #tyla

Slavery’s Ghost Haunts a Booker Prizewinner’s First TV Show Marlon James’s new HBO detective series, “Get Millie Black,” draws on Jamaica’s colonial history as well as his family’s experiences.

Marlon James has a show on HBO!

If you know his brilliant books, and his endlessly enjoyable conversations, then you know this is the show to watch next.

GET MILLIE BLACK

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I was washing my hair while watching #JojosBizzareAdventure and ended up as #josuke #higashikata

#josukehigashikata #jjba #jojo #cosplay #blackcosplay

JOIN US for the first Brown Bag Lecture of Fall “Meantime Designs: Housing, Infrastructure, and Participatory Architecture in Post-Apartheid Cape Town” with Laurin Baumgardt, Ph.D. Candidate, on Friday, September 6, at 12:00 p.m. on Zoom.

Traces of violence in Windhoek A fresh breeze blows down Independence Avenue. In the centre of Windhoek in Namibia, people gather i...

The architecture of German colonialism and South African apartheid persists in the capital of Namibia, one of Africa’s youngest democracies. My essay for #TheArchitecturalReview www.architectural-review.com/essays/trace...

A favourite story of mine: revealing the spatial legacy of Apartheid using historical aerial photos
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Screenshot of the summer school cover flyer representing hand-drawn eyes, mouths, and noses.

Come and learn about "Reimagining Knowledge Production Through #Collaborative and #Multimodal Approaches" with Kitti Baracsi and me! We're part of a beautiful training team at the next #IMISCOE PhD Summer School on "Developing a sensory methodology in #migration studies" in #Lisbon.

Do you have 22 minutes? Here's a wealth of info about best urban mobility practices from 120 European cities.

Highly recommended proven solutions for new policy leaders + their staffs.

#logistics #parking #airquality #congestion #resilience #safety #efficiency #multimodal #smartcity #cars #data

In this collection, you will find a chapter on 'mediality vs. materiality', drafting a #multimodal perspective on the notion of #media as procedures - by me.

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I'm not ready for classes to start next week, but at least I'm excited about all of my classes. Practicum on Swinburne's personal library with my advisor, 3D digitization, and a class on Mexico looking at colonialism and spatial studies. A weird, but fun assemblage of classes!

interesting to note in recent(ish) lorenzo veracini book how succinctly he describes settler colonialism as an exit fantasy concerning spatial displacement

Fun teaching we continued with MA cohort where they designed board games to represent the spatial imaginaries of settler colonialism and imperialism. One of the groups designed shipboard periodicals to be the bonus cards

Radical Software Fall 2024 Taught By: Rory Solomon Section: A CRN: 17140 Credits: 4 This hybrid theory/practice seminar will trace the history of radical, activist, and countercultural uses of software and digital technology. From the milieu surrounding the Whole Earth Catalog, to hacker collectives such as Anonymous, to recent art and activism, we will explore efforts that have attempted to deploy software and its networks as anti-authoritarian or counter-hegemonic techniques. We will examine concepts that undergird the commitments of such actions, such as liberalism, freedom, sovereignty, and direct action. And we will consider industry discourse to ask whether and how we might distinguish between radical software and corporate marketing messages around “disruption.” Readings will include texts by authors such as Mackenzie Wark, Fred Turner, Gabriella Coleman, Alex Galloway, and Ruha Benjamin. Coursework will include hands-on projects comprised of creative and critical use and mi

Urban Protest Fall 2024 Taught By: Emily Bills Section: A CRN: 15881 Credits: 3 This course seeks to retell the history of modern American and European city planning from a social justice perspective. We review the major contributions to urban design and explore the class, gendered, and racialized prejudices often built into such planning approaches. As part of this process, we seek to understand the complicated motivations of urban thinkers who developed such ideas as the City Beautiful, the Garden City, and the "city scientific," among others, and how those concepts were actualized in reality. How did often problematic, but sometimes well-intentioned, projects contribute to colonialism, environmental racism, and housing segregation? And how are these approaches still influential today? A key goal of the course is to highlight resistance efforts and creative adaptations by those often written out of planning history. We engage course material through creative projects, readings, p

Fugitive Practices, Public Art Spring 2024 Taught By: David Johnson Section: A CRN: 14841 Credits: 4 This course will explore the history and contested terrain of public art from the mid-20th century to the present. Primarily focusing on New York City, we will discuss how policing, private property, and gentrification shape the very function of public art. Looking at the work of artists like Smokehouse Associates, Tehching Hsieh, Tourmaline, Edgar Heap of Birds, Cameron Rowland and Beverly Buchanan, we will consider artists who utilize radical modes of spatial occupation, public intervention, commoning and expropriation. We will examine how their strategies question borders between ownership and the state, the lawful and illegal, the authorized and unofficial, and the ways that such distinctions are produced through historical conditions, legal and social structures. Through the framework of fugitivity, this course will consider questions such as: Can public art exist apart from sp

The New School certainly has its issues, but I will never not love the imagination and progressiveness of its curriculum, faculty + students

"Together, we must reject any manifestation of colonialism of a special type, both within our nation’s spatial development and other organisational patterns and in our international relations and co-operation policy."

Oil + Luster

i’m allowed to post this elite milk over here, or no?

@NtandoThukwana: We walked through some of South Africa’s townships to produce this story on the lingering impacts of South Africa’s apartheid spatial design and why the ruling ANC has struggled to undo its legacy after thirty years in power.
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Despite affirmative action policies implemented in 🇿🇦 since 1994, the failure to reverse urban spatial segregation imposed by colonial/apartheid system has resulted in: language policies for school admissions have served as discriminatory mechanisms that hinder transformative synergies within society

Rolling into the week!

#Blacksky #rollergirls #rollerskates #womenshealth #womenfitness

What is neocolonialism in geoscience and why you should care — HERI - Human Evolution Research Institute At HERI’s final Winter Seminar, Dr Robyn Pickering unpacks neo-colonialism in geoscience, and how we can counter its resulting unequal and extractive practices.

Why does neo-colonialism in #geoscience matter? Because it influences the way we talk about & carry out #research in #Africa.

Our @pickeringrobyn.bsky.social digs into how to recognise neo-colonialism - and what we can do to support change. Read more: https://buff.ly/4fomSnq

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He is not South African, he is a colonial settler