Pol Rosenthal

Tag: Literature

  • Africans, Asians Unite!

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    Asia in My Life By Ngugi wa Thiong’o “The links between Asia and Africa and South America have always been present but in our times they have been made invisible by the fact that Europe is still the central mediator of Afro-Asian-Latino discourse. We live under what Satya Mohanty in his interview in Frontline (April…

  • Guilty, A Public Passion

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    Last weekend I was part of a ritualized public reading of Bataille’s ‘Guilty‘ out at the Smoke Farm complex. Photographer Dan Hawkins made a time-lapse video of our 7 hour adventure… Guilty is the edited diary of George Bataille written during World War 2. Bataille explores the guilt and anger he experiences at not being…