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Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life. This results not merely from Life’s imitative instinct, but from the fact that the self-conscious aim of Life is to find expression, and that Art offers it certain beautiful forms through which it may realize that energy. ... Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.
The Decay of Lying
Oscar Wilde
Undoubtedly, the hopes for national independence and international transformation have not been realised in the manner fought for by the anticolonial generation. The contradictions and crises of the postcolonial state today stand in sharp contrast to the hopes for continued economic and social decolonisation and transformation after political independence. As Grovogui (2005, 112) has observed, “decolonization failed to stop the completion of the colonial project. It left in place the structures of violence and repression that protected subjective privileges. It left in its wake subjects with no real power domestically or internationally and therefore no hope of recognition or justice through legislation, negotiation or otherwise.” It is therefore not enough today, as Scott urges, to recount the histories of anticolonial struggle in a heroic vein. Our engagement with these histories must speak to our own present. A tragic structure is compelling when considering the disappointments and defeats suffered by anticolonial visions, but there are also other ways in which these histories can resonate with our times.
Time, History, Politics: Anticolonial Constellations
Branwen Gruffydd Jones
Dans la révolution c’est le monde qui change ; le sujet qui en est la cause et incarne le garant du passage d’un monde à l’autre ne peut pas se transformer, car il est le seul témoin de la transformation en cours.
Théorie de la métamorphose
Emanuele Coccia
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