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  • South Africa and the rainbowfication of whiteness

    South Africa and the rainbowfication of whiteness

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    kimscipes
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    The cover of Pink Floyd’s album Dark Side of the Moon is a perfect visual metaphor for the South African transition from apartheid. The image, a single beam of white light being refracted through a prism, becoming a rainbow, perfectly captures the way the transition to democracy in 1994 became a prism refracting whiteness into…

  • Agriculture as Wrong Turn

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    fitzdon

    The “Agricultural Revolution” is lauded as one of the greatest achievements in the history of the human race, proof positive of “Progress” and of our own exalted status “a little lower than angels.” Doubtless, it is among the most momentous changes that our species has experienced, on par with the utilization of fire, the development…