tricks taught: risk, thought, and the Marxist (un)truth of myth in Sukumaland
a matched pair of mabindas (Sukuma articulated dance figures) on a performance cord “ For revolutionary consciousness is subjective consciousness, just as natural consciousness is, that is, it is a determination or re-presentation of substance, ethical life, actuality, in the form of an abstract consciousness. An abstract consciousness is one which knows that it is not united with ethical life. It is determined by abstract law to know itself as formally free, identical and empty. It is only such an abstract consciousness which can be potentially revolutionary, which can conceive the ambition to acquire a universal content or determination which is not that of the bourgeois property law which bestowed universality and subjectivity on it in the first place. ” — Gillian Rose, Hegel Contra Sociology My medicine gourd I should prepare-prepare The snake hunters have not seen me yet The huntsmen of snakes I have a calabash of recklessness O Madam, I have killed Shing’weng’we!...
