Vanessa Anne-Cecile Freerks
Biographic Data
| ID | 317388 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vanessa Anne-Cecile Freerks |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vanessa Anne-Cecile |
| FAMILY NAME | Freerks |
| SIGNATURE | FREERKS V A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Johannesburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2774-9663 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Cry of Winnie Mandela meets “minor literature”
The University between Commodification and Simulation: Towards S-educ(a)tion
In this article, I demonstrate the relevance of Baudrillard's work in an educational context. I build on Williams's (2016) analysis of how ‘commodification’ hollows out higher education using Di Leo's work (2024) on capitalism and the university. Contra Di Leo however, Baudrillard's ‘symbolic exchange’ is not an ‘unkept revolutionary and radical promise’, nor does it lie ‘beyond’ capitalism. Against the university's state of ‘rot’ along with its …
Baudrillard and Heidegger: Between Two Deaths
In this article, I compare the ways in which Baudrillard and Heidegger seek to bring attention to the importance of death for our personal existential situation which has now become repressed in conceptions of existence and society. Heidegger critiques public conceptions of death that serve to cover up its importance. Less well known is that, somewhat in parallel fashion, Baudrillard charts a 'genealogy' of the 'extradition' of the dead from the …
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Baudrillard and Heidegger: Between Two Deaths
In this article, I compare the ways in which Baudrillard and Heidegger seek to bring attention to the importance of death for our personal existential situation which has now become repressed in conceptions of existence and society. Heidegger critiques public conceptions of death that serve to cover up its importance. Less well known is that, somewhat in parallel fashion, Baudrillard charts a 'genealogy' of the 'extradition' of the dead from the …
The Cry of Winnie Mandela meets “minor literature”
The University between Commodification and Simulation: Towards S-educ(a)tion
In this article, I demonstrate the relevance of Baudrillard's work in an educational context. I build on Williams's (2016) analysis of how ‘commodification’ hollows out higher education using Di Leo's work (2024) on capitalism and the university. Contra Di Leo however, Baudrillard's ‘symbolic exchange’ is not an ‘unkept revolutionary and radical promise’, nor does it lie ‘beyond’ capitalism. Against the university's state of ‘rot’ along with its …
Sociology (2 works) · Action (physics (1 works) · African studies and sociopolitical issues (1 works) · Art (1 works) · Art, Politics, and Modernism (1 works) · Commodification (1 works) · Cover (algebra (1 works) · Cultural Studies and Postmodernism (1 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (1 works) · Dismissal (1 works)