Sublime

Another unexpected result of recent archaeological research, causing many to revise their view of prehistoric hunter-gatherers, is the appearance of monumental architecture.

The problem with White’s understanding lies in his conception of narrative structures, which draws heavily and fatally, I believe, on structuralism. Thus, White wants to show that history and myth have important common elements in utilizing imaginative resources in their ‘configuration’, as it were, but both are also limited by the structural form

Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish, 191. Gilles Deleuze’s concerns about “the control” society, and Bernard Harcourt’s arguments about “the expository society,” as attempts to explain the forms that knowledge-power took after the end of the disciplinary society, also fit into this category.

the promise of postapartheid South Africa has not been realized. For its part, Nigeria was a British colony for a century before gaining its independence in 1960. The country’s subsequent history can only be described as deeply troubled; its initial decades were marked by civil war, secessionist challenges, and military rule. Its politics seem to

A África não é mais um espaço circunscrito cujo lugar pode ser definido e que esconderia um segredo ou um enigma, e que, além disso, pode ser demarcado. Mesmo que o continente ainda possa ser chamado de lugar, ele é, para muitos, um lugar de passagem ou de trânsito. É um lugar em vias de se desfazer num modelo nômade, transitório, errante e de