Have you read Slavoj Žižek‘s take on the recent episode of the meaningless signing translator at Mandela’s memorial ceremony?
In part, it reads: Continue reading ““It Makes Us Feel Good””
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Have you read Slavoj Žižek‘s take on the recent episode of the meaningless signing translator at Mandela’s memorial ceremony?
In part, it reads: Continue reading ““It Makes Us Feel Good””
I assume you’ve heard the reaction to the sign language interpreter at the Nelson Mandela memorial a few days ago — the fellow who wasn’t signing anything meaningful. It’s a great example, really, of how signification works. Continue reading “Signs, Signs, Everywhere a Sign”
US President Ronald Reagan’s administration put Nelson Mandela (who died at 95 earlier this week) and the African National Congress (ANC) on a U.S.’s “terror watch list” in the 1980s.
President George W. Bush repealed the ANC’s terrorist designation — but only in 2008, a decade after Mandela had finished serving as President of South Africa (from 1994-1999) and two decades after the South African government itself had lifted the ban on the ANC.
British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher described the ANC as a “typical terrorist organization” in the late 1980s. Continue reading “The Contexts of Classification Matter”