Wage work, it is said, is disappearing in the “new” age of capital, to rising alarm across the world. Yet there is...
Thinking on borrowed time…about privileging the human
It is possible to detect a sense of foreboding in the vibrant, engaging papers assembled here, an ominous sense of...
Dependence
In one form or another, the concept of dependence has, from the first, been foundational to modern understandings of...
Afterword: Uncanny Modernities, Early and Late
As these lively essays attest, the modern self has always been open to spiritual doubles, to others of one kind or...
Uncanny Returns
Liberal modern personhood presumes a coherent, indivisible subject. Yet there is plentiful evidence to suggest that...
Vigilantism And The Paradoxes Of Sovereignty
In October 2015, Lubabalo Vellem was arrested in Masiphumelele,1 a townshrlip of some 40,000 people some twenty-five...
The Dis/Appearing Body of Labor in Modern
The Laboring Body The laboring body is a curious thing: in the modern sense of homo faber, it connotes the...
Ethnicity, Inc.
In October 2000, Business Day, a leading South African newspaper, published an extraordinary story. Its title read:...
Figuring Democracy
12.01 a.m., 25 April 1994. Wale Street, Cape Town, South Africa: The last strains of the anthem of the ancien regime –...