When Language is Affordance Enough It began with a hand clenched experimentally to ear not so much a fist as a makeshift mouthpiece designed to broadcast miracles speaking in tongues: ‘habari,kangarooshni ,slapit nego,nego,unulti possum! craaghi ipsit cunnilingo ? es krampit todo kwa heri ‘ a polyglot mother … [Read more...] about A Poem for all seasons
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Atishoo, atishoo, we all fall down : Some seasonal reflections on body politics
The well known nursery rhyme flashed into my mind as I pitched forward onto the wet pavement, instinctively putting my right hand out to break my fall. No it was’nt a serious as the Black Death, but neither was the searing pain in my right shoulder a benign memento of a children’s counting out game, to take the two dominant interpretations of Ring a Ring of Roses nursery … [Read more...] about Atishoo, atishoo, we all fall down : Some seasonal reflections on body politics