Dazzled by New Media

Mbembe, Tonda, and the Mystic Virtual

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2098520
AutoresP Geschiere (0000-0002-2290-6984, autor correspondente)
Ano2021
Volume64
Fascículo1
Páginas71-85
Data de publicação2021-03-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAfrican Studies Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0002-0206 • E-ISSN: 1555-2462
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/asr.2020.80
OpenAlexW3155925245
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas4
Referências citadas17

Inspired by Mbembe's emphasis on plasticity as a hallmark of African forms of knowledge, Geschiere notes the risk that this leads to a celebration of Africanness, sliding into culturalism and identity politics. But Mbembe relates this plasticity also to the continent's position as the last frontier of capitalism. Such a historical view converges with Joseph Tonda's work onéblouissement(endazzlement) as a global phenomenon. Everywhere people are now being blinded by an overproduction of images. However, Africans have a long experience of living with multiple realities and "alternative facts." Is this relevant for dealing with the risk that we all become blinded by the images we ourselves have created

Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Capitalism · Culturalism · Epistemology · Frontier · Identity (music · Literature · Mysticism · Phenomenon · Political science · Politics · Sociology · African history and culture studies · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues · History · Law · Philosophy · South African History and Culture