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Articles by Premesh Lalu
SENSORY EXPERIMENTS, SENSORY ORDERS, AND AESTHETIC EDUCATION
Sensory Experiments: Psychophysics, Race, and the Aesthetics of Feeling. By . Durham: Duke University Press, 2020. Pp. 336. In the opening pages of Sensory Experiments: Psychophysics, Race, and the Aesthetics of Feeling, Erica Fretwell lays out the framework of the emergent (but later failed and nearly forgotten) science of psychophysics.
The abysmal state of South Africa’s photo archives
Together in song: There was a band called Fire Brigade owned by Cynthia Mavuso’s father that used to rehearse at his home. On this particular day in the 1990s, they had held a beauty contest called Miss Fire Brigade. (Cynthia Mavuso) Cedric Nunn The need for digitisation became apparent at the very beginning of the digital era. In about 1996, I invested in an Apple Mac with a digital scanner.
TRIBUTE: David Koloane: Artist who found himself on the wrong side of love
Installation shot of A Resilient Visionary: Poetic Expressions of David Koloane, 2019 Photograph: Nigel Pamplin © Iziko Museums of South Africa One of South Africa’s great artists, David Koloane, died on June 30, just 28 days after his retrospective exhibition, ‘A Resilient Visionary: Poetic Expressions of David Koloane’ opened at the Iziko South African National Gallery in Cape Town. This is an edited version of Premesh Lalu’s remarks at the opening.
South Africa: Gutted History - Textbook Curriculum Jars With Those Who Lived Through Apartheid
analysis By Premesh Lalu The history textbook struggle of apartheid that is taught in schools is shorn of desire and dreams, of the pain of destruction wrought upon millions. Some years ago, while on a conference visit to Delhi, I purchased a copy of Letters from a Father to a Daughter for my 14-year-old daughter.
Textbook curriculum jars with those who...
(Left) Three close friends of the writer, Premesh Lalu, at the height of the state of emergency: Juliet Franciscus, Karen Britten and Sean Stockenstroom from Belgravia High School in Athlone, 1985. Photo: davidhartmanphotography (Right): The writer, Premesh Lalu. Photo: Chevan Rayson. (Left) Three close friends of the writer, Premesh Lalu, at the height of the state of emergency: Juliet Franciscus, Karen Britten and Sean Stockenstroom from Belgravia High School in Athlone, 1985.
Dreams of freedom begin with microscopic desires, not grand plans
Africa has contributed to the world substantial literary, musical and cinematic works in the 20th century, with SA playing a pivotal role. While it is often said that SA carried the hopes of democracy on the continent, what is often neglected is that the country also carried the hopes of the humanism of the anticolonial struggle in the world.
Honouring Belgravia High's political legacy | IOL
When Wayde van Niekerk spectacularly broke a 17-year record to win the 400m final at the Rio Olympics, some media drew attention to his mother, Odessa Swarts, who set provincial and national records years earlier. The system of apartheid denied her the chance to represent her country at the time. She participated in non-racial, anti-apartheid sport under the banner of the South African Council on Sport (Sacos).
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