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Although films like Bamako (Abderrahmane Sissako, 2006) or The Colonial Misunderstanding (Jean-Marie Teno, 2004) make it seriously contentious to categorically state, as Achille Mbembe does, that “the thematics of anti-imperialism is exhausted,” it is nevertheless evident that for directors like Mahamed Camara, Mansour Sora Wade, Jean-Pierre Bekolo, Daniel Kamwa, Safi Faye, Henri Duparc, Desiré Ecaré, Henri-Joseph Koubi Bididi, Dani Kouyaté, and Mwenze Ngangura, to name just a few, “the nation” is a less important, if not a totally absent signifier.
African Cinema(s): Definitions, Identity and Theoretical Considerations
Alexie Tcheuyap
5. No substrata – The idea that indiscernibles are identical is central to any monadology for the basic entities posited are not identified through a substratum, but rather by what connects them to other entities. It is their position with respect to other entities that make them what they are – and these positions are all different and infinitely many. Basic entities are therefore worldly and enjoy no trans-world identity that would enable them to be something completely discernible in a different possible world.
Being up for grabs: on speculative anarcheology
Hilan Bensusan
The paradox of dissensus as the presence of two worlds in one is that it is simultaneously a demonstration of a split between two worlds and a demonstration of another common world that unites them.
Rethinking the concept of world: towards transcendental multiplicity
Rok Benčin
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