People will spew this kind of rhetoric and praise the actions behind it and then be in complete shock when it leads to retaliatory action. We know this to be what initiates a very cynical cycle of violence. Completely predictable, still tragic and worth resisting.

Yes, sure. But what I plan to write goes beyond that to giving an analysis of the propaganda machine that produces that narrative about the "144 laws" and where it sits in our politics.

Haha, no. But I am considering writing something about that if I get a gap to do so next year.

They’re recycling old and very dangerous ideas, and we keep having to make the same arguments against them.

Thank you, Celso! 😁

Thank you, Alisa! I’m glad to be representing philosophy in these spaces 😊

Thanks 🙏🏾

Thank you, Tessa! ☺️

It’s about the ethics, management, and use of human remains in institutional collections mostly tainted by colonialism: blog.prif.org/2025/02/28/b...

Sounds like a good deal, no?

Faintly whispering: *but they never fought a war with the intention of being against the forces of White supremacy*

Why is English often thought to equate to literary studies more generally? I was struck by your line “Students of English do not expect to emerge from their degrees able to speak a foreign language” when English is a foreign language in most parts of the world it is taught. That feels like a tension

Yes, it illustrates the social and historical generation of the categories. It shows that these categories and classifications are not labels that we put on nature but something we have created through social processes.

This infographic is meant to show how those in power grouped people in increasingly rigid race-based ways. The aim of illustrating this history from that perspective is to provide a resource for the critique of the racial projects this has been (and continues to be) a part.

The paper will will explain the reasons for certain editorial decisions that we took (e.g., only focusing on the classifications used in the Cape Colony in the period up to 1910, how we reduced some of the complexity in representing how groups were classified, etc.)