My early university education at the then-very white University of Cape Town coincided with South Africa’s transition from Apartheid to democracy. Stuart Hall didn’t feature much, despite the fact, as I would later learn, I was indirectly influenced by … Continue reading “Stuart Hall's South African Legacy”
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All Blues
brent hayes edwardsI never met Stuart Hall, or even saw him speak in person, which seems surprising now that he is gone — there must have been opportunities I missed — but also somehow appropriate. I only knew him through his … Continue reading “All Blues”
Infinite Conversations
Nicholas MirzoeffStuart Hall, activist, writer, theorist and inspiration has died in London aged 81. It is not just a terrible loss. It is a time to reflect and a time to regroup. What was has gone or fallen apart. As … Continue reading “Infinite Conversations”
Twenty-First Century Man: The Urgent Legacy of Stuart Hall
Jeremy GilbertThe sad loss of Stuart Hall in February of this year provoked an entirely appropriate and deserved series of tributes and reminiscences: from those who knew him a little, from those who knew him intimately, and from those whose … Continue reading “Twenty-First Century Man: The Urgent Legacy of Stuart Hall”
Policing the Crisis
Ashley DawsonI first discovered Stuart Hall’s work through a screening of Black British filmmaker Isaac Julien’s Looking for Langston. It was 1990. I had just moved to New York from London and was in my first semester of graduate study, … Continue reading “Policing the Crisis”
Stuart Hall’s Relevance for the Study of Slavery in Biocapitalism
Alys Eve WeinbaumWhen I was invited to write in commemoration of Stuart Hall, it took only minutes to decide how to focus my meditations. I, like others, recognize Hall as the “godfather of multiculturalism,” and am grateful for his role (along … Continue reading “Stuart Hall’s Relevance for the Study of Slavery in Biocapitalism”
Black Europe Body Politics: Towards an Afropean Decolonial Aesthetics
alanna lockwardThe conceptualization of decolonial aesthetics[i] is fairly recent, however its points of departure — the epistemic shifts that have been challenging coloniality in the artistic and cultural practices of the Global South — are as old as the colonial … Continue reading “Black Europe Body Politics: Towards an Afropean Decolonial Aesthetics”