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Image – Sketch by Michael Levine, 2000.
Quote – Bob Dylan, “All Along the Watchtower,” taken from Jimmy Hendrix’s album, Electric Ladyland, 1968.
About
Image – Gaston Rébuffat, Ligné de cordé, Valais, Switzerland, 1964.
Quote – Bertrand Russell, “On Meaning and Denotation” [1903], in Alasdair Urquhart, ed., Russell’s Collected Papers (London: Routledge, 1994), p. 328.
Philosophy
Image – Roger Dubois, Henri Dutilleux, 1973.
Quote – Stéphane Mallarmé, Un Coup de dés (Paris: Gallimard, 1975), p. 9, my translation.
Philosophy> Books
Image – Micharel Sweerts, Wrestling Match, 1649.
Quote – Karl Marx, “Theses in the Philosophy of Feuerbach,” in Marx on Religion (London: Dover, 1971), p. 49.
Philosophy> Essays
Image – 22nd Congress of Philosophy, Seoul, South Korea, 2008.
Quote – Dorian Corey in Paris Is Burning, documentary film directed by Jennie Livingston, 1990.
Philosophy> Schemes
Image – Cooper Joseph Studio, Installation view, Museum of the City of New York, 2016.
Quote – F. G. W. Leibniz, “Observations on the Book Concerning ‘the Origin of Evil,’” in Theodicy, translated by E. M. Huggard (New York: BiblioBazaard, 1985), p. 411.
Research in African Philosophy (RAP)
Image – St. Louis, Senegal, 2008.
Quote – Meinrad P. Hebga, Afrique de la raison, Afrique de la foi (Paris: Karthala, 1995), p. 138, my translation.
Rwanda
Image – Nyabugogo, Kigali, Rwanda, 2011.
Quote – Alexis Kagame, La Philosophie Bantu comparée (Paris: Présence Africaine, 1976), p. 165, my translation.
Rwanda> Philosophy
Image – Kigali, Rwanda, 2011.
Quote – Innocent Nsengimana, “Recension du livre du Prof. Maniragaba Balibusta, Une archéologie de la violence en Afrique des Grands Lacs,” in Divergences13 (May 2008).
Rwanda> Proverbs
Image – St. Louis, Senegal, 2008.
Quote – Campbell Shittu Momoh, “Temporal Proverbs in African Philosophy,” in Time and Development in the Thought of Sub-Saharan Africa, ed. S. B. Diagne (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1998), p. 195.
Rwanda> Translations
Image – Île de Gorée, Senegal, 2008.
Quote – Walter Benjamin, Illuminations, translated by Harry Zorn (London: Pimlico, 1999), p. 79.
Rwanda> Photography
Image – Route de Huye, Rwanda, 2011.
Quote – Kresse, Kai. “Reading Mudimbe,” in The Journal of African Cultural Studies 17-1 (June 2005): 1.
Creative
Image – Joachim Patinir, Crossing the River Styx, c. 1510.
Quote – Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Complete Short Stories (New York: Doubleday & Co., 1959), p. 42.
Creative> Fiction
Image – Stephen Horner, San Francisco Night Skyline, 2014.
Quote – Jean-Luc Nancy, Being Singular Plural, translated by R. D. Richardson (Stanford University Press, 2000), p. 61.
Creative> Poetry
Image – Jacques-Louis David, Patrocle, 1780.
Quote – e.e. cummings, A Miscellany Revised (London: October House, 1965), p. 236.
Creative> Photography
Image – Great Hall, Parham House, Sussex, 2018.
Quote – Antonio Damasio, Looking for Spinoza Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain (London: William Heinemann, 2003), p. 203.
Pedagogy
Image – Classroom, Skardu, Pakistan, 2007.
Quote – Jacques Derrida, “My Chances/Mes Chances,” in Taking Chances, ed. Joseph H. Smith and William Kerrigan (Baltimore: Hopkins University Press, 1984) p. 2.
Pedagogy> Teaching
Image – Dimitri Mouton, Village Vanguard Jazz Club, New York, 2016.
Quote – Jean-François Lyotard, “Endurance and the Profession,” in Yale French Studies 63 (1982): 72.
Pedagogy> PhD Students
Image – Office, Goldsmiths College, London, 2017.
Quote – Marshall McLuhan, “The Medium is the Message,” in Media and Cultural Studies Key Works, ed., M. Gigi Durham and D. M. Kellner (London: Blackwell, 2006), p. 106.
Pedagogy> Media
Image – Virginia Overton, Lily Pads, Fifth-floor “Sculpture Gardens,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 2016.
Quote – Claude Lévi-Strauss, “Rousseau: Founder of Anthropology,” translated by M. Layton, in The UNESCO Courier (March 1963): 16.
News & Logs
Image – Andy Fisher, Parliament Square, 9 December 2010.
Quote – Hélène Cixous, “The Cat’s Arrival,” in Parallax 12, no. 1 (2006): 24.
News & Logs> Log 1
Image – Dimitri Mouton, Buenos Aires Cemetery, Argentina, 2015.
News & Logs> Log 2
Image – NGC 6302, also called the Bug or Butterfly Nebula, NASA, ESA and the Hubble Team, 2009.
Contact
Image – Department of Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths College, 2007.
Quote – Jasbir K. Puar, “Queer Times, Queer Assemblages,” in Social Text 84-85, vol. 23, nos. 3-4 (Autumn-Winter 2005): 131.
Special thanks to Michael Levine, Dimitri Mouton, Andy Fisher, and Stephen Horner for allowing their work to appear on this website. All other photographs are either anonymous or taken by me.