“There is a type of drum that resonates as if several are being beaten at once. The same is true for certain voices and songs.” Achille Mbembe Whenever one thinks about it, every political action – especially in the XXth Century – had to do with its vocalization. Our first element of protest, our reignContinue reading “Echoes of the resistance”
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Material history of the university
Can we rely on what objects have to tell us? Which (hi)stories are objects telling us? Which is the potency and the agency of objects? This photographic series ponders upon the idea of material history. It is a collection of objects found at the street known as “couloir de la mort” (death row) located inContinue reading “Material history of the university”
Lux mea spes
Numerous students living at the student houses from the Cheikh Anta Diop university in Dakar, Senegal; go out every night to study under the street lights of the campus boulevard. Every night they go to memorize and rehearse words; words meaningful to their future practices. Jacques Derrida understands the university profession – professors – toContinue reading “Lux mea spes”
Frida Robles 