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'Our machines are disturbingly lively, and we ourselves Mghteningly inert': Reconsidering ironic kinship in Neill Blomkamps science fiction film Chappie by du Plooy, Belinda

“…Neill Blomkamp's 2015 science fiction film Chappie engages with the familiar narrative trope of robot sentience. Blomkamp confronts viewers with a naïve and…”
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‘Our machines are disturbingly lively, and we ourselves frighteningly inert’: Reconsidering ironic kinship in Neill Blomkamp’s science fiction film by Du Plooy, Belinda

“…Neill Blomkamp’s 2015 science fiction film Chappie engages with the familiar narrative trope of robot sentience. Blomkamp confronts viewers with a naïve and…”
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Space Hitler and saint by Engelbrecht, Janine

“…One of the most recent Star Trek series, Star Trek: Discovery (2017-present) (DSC), seems self-aware regarding the contradictions inherent in what Star Trek…”
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Space Hitler and saint by Engelbrecht, Janine

“…One of the most recent Star Trek series, Star Trek: Discovery (2017-present) (DSC), seems self-aware regarding the contradictions inherent in what Star Trek…”
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Space Hitler and saint: Star Trek's Emperor Georgion and the slippage between postfeminism and fourth wave feminism by Engelbrecht, Janine

“…One of the most recent Star Trek series, Star Trek: Discovery (2017-present) (DSC), seems self-aware regarding the contradictions inherent in what Star Trek…”
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Breaking the 'Law of the Father': Linda Rademan's transgressive engagements with Afrikaner patriarchy in the home by von Veh, Karen

“…Artist, Linda Rademan, was born in the mid-1950s in an Afrikaans home where 'the law of the father' pertained in all matters. She has professed ambivalence…”
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"Sweep the yard girl": Brooms, wifely duties and the subversive art of Usha Seejarim by Netshia, Shonisani

“…Jumping over the broom in African and African-American contexts symbolises the bride's commitment to clean the house and yard of the new home she is joining-to…”
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The Black Female Messiah in Nnedi Okorafor's The Book of Phoenix by Borain, Bernice

“…The Africanfuturist novel The Book of Phoenix by Nnedi Okorafor (2015) centres on a paradoxical black female messiah, whose story embodies the contemporary…”
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Deliberately derivative: levels of decolonisation in Nnedi Okorafor's Akata Witch by Boshoff, Dorothea

“…Having written science fiction works such as Zahrah the Windseeker and Binti, Nnedi Okorafor is at the forefront of Africanfuturism. Akata Witch falls within…”
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Exploring Nnedi Okorafor's decolonial turn in the Binti Trilogy by Alexander, Josephine Olufunmilayo

“…Nnedi Okorafor is one of the best-known speculative fiction writers who has centred African perspectives and delinked from Western models. In her trilogy,…”
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Special section editorial by Byrne, Deirdre C., Alexander, Josephine Olofunmilayo

“…Decolonisation is a group of critical theories aimed at negating colonialism by eradicating its multifaceted effects on the life of the colonised. According to…”
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Future Frontiers: Ontological Osmosis and Africanfuturist Cyborgs in Nnedi Okorafor's Lagoon by Banks, Brett, Kayat, Jethro, Rossmann, Jean

“…This article will examine Nnedi Okorafor's Lagoon (2014) - a tale of shapeshifting aliens arriving off the coast of Lagos, Nigeria - as a quintessential…”
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Give the Black Girl the Remote: De-colonising and Depatriarchalising Knowledge and Art in Black Panther and Colour Me Melanin by Byrne, Deirdre C.

“…This article explores two texts set in Africa to determine to what extent they exhibit decolonial and anti-patriarchal impulses. They are Ryan Coogler's 2018…”
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Exhibition Review by Lebakeng, Teboho

“…The group exhibition You don't say, is based around a third-year Fine Arts project completed at the University of Pretoria under the guidance and teachings of…”
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The duration of To Be(Hold) in Revere: An Exhibition of Historical Photographs of People with Intellectual Disability by du Plessis, Rory

“…In this article, I discuss my curation of a photographic exhibition of people with intellectual disability (PWID) who were institutionalised at the Grahamstown…”
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Book launch exhibition by Crafford, Carla

“…The book Light for Art’s Sake (2021)1 was launched with a related exhibition at the University of Pretoria in October 2021. The way in which pinhole…”
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The Curation of by Du Plessis, Rory

“…In this article, I discuss my curation of a photographic exhibition of people with intellectual disability (PWID) who were institutionalised at the Grahamstown…”
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A Combustible Object: The Suppression and Recovery of Ernest Cole’s photobook by O'Toole, Sean

“…Ernest Cole’s (1940-1990) much-admired photobook House of Bondage (1967) is considered a landmark event in South African photography. Composed of 183 photos…”
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Joanna Rajkowska’s by Sliwinska, Basia

“…Thinking with Joanna Rajkowska’s project Rhizopolis (2021), conceived as an underground habitat for species that survived a series of cataclysms, this essay…”
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Whose city? (De)colonising the bodies of speculative fiction in Lauren Beukes’s by Weston, Natasha Lyle

“…This article explores the (de)colonisation of the body and body boundaries in contemporary South African speculative fiction, paying particular attention to…”
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