ENGL 2P53 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Welterweight, Michel Foucault
15 Mar 2016
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It"s all there, and beauifully done: the welter of south african accents, black and white (so thick that the producers give us subitles much of the ime), the incessant afrikaans swearing and obscenity; the endless local cultural references. The movie has a lot of fun with this, parading its provincial roots with a kind of delighted embarassment. All the delights of our own ethnoscape all the more pleasing because it is done with such a light, subversive touch. Workers in red uniforms taking down prawns" shacks dressed like workers hired by anc to take down informal setlements and relocate residents to reconstrucion and development program (rdp) housing. Blogger: apartheid repression was never just about violence. Instead, it was a strange and carefully composed mix of brutal force, racist anthropology, foucauldian surveillance, and a curious, bureaucraic obsession with the appearance of due process and the rule of law.
