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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Oct 2010 21:51:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>andries du toit</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The most thought-provoking words spoken  at the Boksburg Inequality Conference that we and our partners hosted in Gauteng last month were uttered right at the end, almost as an aside, by the conference’s closing speaker, Neva Makgetla. Reminiscing about her days studying philosophy in East Germany (as it then was), she said that what had [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=asubtleknife.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8334577&amp;post=785&amp;subd=asubtleknife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 16:22:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>andries du toit</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;If a man could pass thro&#8217; Paradise in a Dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his Soul had really been there, and found that flower in his hand when he awoke &#8212; Aye, and what then?&#8217; Samuel Taylor Coleridge As my friend Liezel said, it’s not  Woody Allen, is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=asubtleknife.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8334577&amp;post=700&amp;subd=asubtleknife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 04:24:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>andries du toit</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Walking out the Cinema Nouveau after seeing Steven Soderbergh&#8217;s new movie The Informant!, which tells the true- life story of Mark Whitacre and his role in the investigation into price fixing at ADM, I was suddenly aware of a crawling, itching sensation of dread. All at once, fearful thoughts about the past week at work [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=asubtleknife.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8334577&amp;post=587&amp;subd=asubtleknife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:15:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>andries du toit</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[UP is  a typical Disney product: which is to say that it is goofily funny and thoroughly, unashamedly sentimental.  It is also  a Pixar product, which means it is  it is witty, clever and technically sophisticated.  Above all, it is an American movie, so you know right from the start that you are in for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=asubtleknife.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8334577&amp;post=540&amp;subd=asubtleknife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>the comfort of enemies, or two unconsciousnesses</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:06:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>andries du toit</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Apartheid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brandon Huntley]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Julius Malema]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, how interesting.  As the terrible stuck-ness that framed our political debate in the dying years of Mbeki&#8217;s reign recedes, we are entering a time when the national debate seems both hopeful and frightening.  Hopeful, because so many things are up for discussion again, and because there is space for a new, more grounded realism. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=asubtleknife.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8334577&amp;post=463&amp;subd=asubtleknife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>lost in africa: disgrace, whiteness and the fear of desire</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 21:11:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>andries du toit</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[John M Coetzee]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[OK, let me start by saying straight up: I did not like this film.  Disgrace left a bad taste in my mouth which I&#8217;m still trying to spit out.  Which gives me pause.  I have my doubts about reviews that are all about tearing something down.  Disparagement’s so easy.  Just the other day I had [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=asubtleknife.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8334577&amp;post=355&amp;subd=asubtleknife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>the alienation effect: further thoughts on D9.</title>
		<link>http://asubtleknife.wordpress.com/2009/09/12/the-alienation-effect-further-thoughts-on-d9/</link>
		<comments>http://asubtleknife.wordpress.com/2009/09/12/the-alienation-effect-further-thoughts-on-d9/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 15:46:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>andries du toit</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has been an interesting week. District 9 has continued to excite much interesting debate, and so has the damned Huntley affair. I have lately been laid low by a virus &#8211; relax, it is neither H1N1, nor something of alien provenance &#8211; just a middle-ear infection; but it gave me opportunity for many fevered dreams, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=asubtleknife.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8334577&amp;post=300&amp;subd=asubtleknife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>becoming the alien: apartheid, racism and district 9</title>
		<link>http://asubtleknife.wordpress.com/2009/09/04/science-fiction-in-the-ghetto-loving-the-alien/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 22:29:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>andries du toit</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Apartheid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[critique]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[desire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[District 9]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Forced Removals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ideology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[memory and forgetting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Neil Blomkamp]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[racism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[science fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sharlto Copley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Warning: spoilers follow! You have to admit: As a premise for a movie it is pretty unpromising. An alien spaceship comes to rest over Johannesburg.  Instead of conquering the planet, the aliens turn out to be in crisis: malnourished and in need of rescuing.  They end up living in a local slum, crammed together in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=asubtleknife.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8334577&amp;post=232&amp;subd=asubtleknife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>a great place for trauma</title>
		<link>http://asubtleknife.wordpress.com/2009/09/02/a-great-place-for-trauma/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 22:51:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>andries du toit</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[branding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brandon Huntley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Caster Semenya]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ideology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Judge John Hlophe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Julius Malema]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[racism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Victim Discourse]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have been stewing away of late, trying to get an angle on the tangled state our current debate &#8211; or is it a non-debate? &#8211; on race and change in South Africa.  The issue has been pretty much in all of our faces of late:  the ever-deepening ditch into which our Judicial Services Commission [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=asubtleknife.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8334577&amp;post=201&amp;subd=asubtleknife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>lavinia&#8217;s voice (or: the critique of rome)</title>
		<link>http://asubtleknife.wordpress.com/2009/08/01/lavinias-voice-or-the-critique-of-rome/</link>
		<comments>http://asubtleknife.wordpress.com/2009/08/01/lavinias-voice-or-the-critique-of-rome/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2009 10:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>andries du toit</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[counter-memory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[critique]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[desire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lavinia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[memory and forgetting]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Le Guin’s book is more formidable than it seems: through the elusive voice that speaks here she addresses a wide range of issues – the use of power, the differences (as always!) between men and women,   the meaning of war, cruelty and violence; and the nature of the creative and artistic process of storytelling and mythmaking itself.  Most of all, it is a critique of Rome, a reflection on the prehistory of Empire, an attempt, as the world's present hyperpower thrashes around in its troubled sleep to recover the values on which we might base a good society.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=asubtleknife.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8334577&amp;post=134&amp;subd=asubtleknife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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