Andries du Toit - School of Government, UWC
@andriesdutoit-uwc.bsky.social
Postcolonial statecraft; contentious politics; political belonging, deliberative practice. All this, and the polycrisis. Views not my own.
The folks at Globalizations have managed to get their hands on one of those devices from Wm Gibson's novel The Peripheral that allows you to send messages to people in the past. This one arrived today, 19 September from, let me see, 23 October 2025.
Reviewer 2 is presumably in a different stub.
Reviewer 2 is presumably in a different stub.
September 19, 2025 at 1:22 PM
The folks at Globalizations have managed to get their hands on one of those devices from Wm Gibson's novel The Peripheral that allows you to send messages to people in the past. This one arrived today, 19 September from, let me see, 23 October 2025.
Reviewer 2 is presumably in a different stub.
Reviewer 2 is presumably in a different stub.
I’m pleased with #Andor writers’ decision to leave behind Lucas’s infantile Good v Evil framing and to explore, instead, the idea that rebellion is political
May 17, 2025 at 8:17 AM
I’m pleased with #Andor writers’ decision to leave behind Lucas’s infantile Good v Evil framing and to explore, instead, the idea that rebellion is political
Choose 20 or more books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for however many days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge
22. John Clute - Appleseed 😮
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22. John Clute - Appleseed 😮
May 14, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Choose 20 or more books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for however many days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge
22. John Clute - Appleseed 😮
#booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge
22. John Clute - Appleseed 😮
An audience with His Majesty
May 9, 2025 at 1:41 PM
An audience with His Majesty
This post flitted through my feed yesterday and I find it keeps nagging at me. Is this idea - that 'struggle is not necessary in a healthy society' widely shared in progressive circles in the USA? I find it utterly astonishing, but the poster seems to think it uncontroversial
April 27, 2025 at 2:16 PM
This post flitted through my feed yesterday and I find it keeps nagging at me. Is this idea - that 'struggle is not necessary in a healthy society' widely shared in progressive circles in the USA? I find it utterly astonishing, but the poster seems to think it uncontroversial
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge
21/20 Pierre Hadot - Philosophy as a way of life: spiritual exercises from Socrates to Foucault
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21/20 Pierre Hadot - Philosophy as a way of life: spiritual exercises from Socrates to Foucault
April 20, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge
21/20 Pierre Hadot - Philosophy as a way of life: spiritual exercises from Socrates to Foucault
#booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge
21/20 Pierre Hadot - Philosophy as a way of life: spiritual exercises from Socrates to Foucault
What astonishes me is how deeply baked in (and how unconscious) the cultural & emotional repertoire of radical Protestant reformation continues to be - and how the same cycles repeat again and again
April 20, 2025 at 11:01 AM
What astonishes me is how deeply baked in (and how unconscious) the cultural & emotional repertoire of radical Protestant reformation continues to be - and how the same cycles repeat again and again
Yup. I fully expect future executions of AI to purposefully but judiciously introduce clumsy phrases, basic misunderstandings and outright howlers the better to attain verisimilitude.
April 18, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Yup. I fully expect future executions of AI to purposefully but judiciously introduce clumsy phrases, basic misunderstandings and outright howlers the better to attain verisimilitude.
Spot on from Freddie De Boer on Ezra Klein, AI, and 'abundance'
freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/abundance-...
freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/abundance-...
April 15, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Spot on from Freddie De Boer on Ezra Klein, AI, and 'abundance'
freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/abundance-...
freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/abundance-...
Millie in her element. Muizenberg peak. #hoerikwaggo #themountaininthesea
April 13, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Millie in her element. Muizenberg peak. #hoerikwaggo #themountaininthesea
Strikwerda's account of the collapse of a global order -- here, by the advent of world war in 1914 -- keeps throwing up present day resonances
April 9, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Strikwerda's account of the collapse of a global order -- here, by the advent of world war in 1914 -- keeps throwing up present day resonances
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge
20/20 Cahokia Jazz - Francis Spufford
#booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge
20/20 Cahokia Jazz - Francis Spufford
April 9, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge
20/20 Cahokia Jazz - Francis Spufford
#booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge
20/20 Cahokia Jazz - Francis Spufford
angry owl
April 8, 2025 at 7:35 PM
angry owl
Strikwerda's account of the short-sighted and zero sum assumptions of the German political elite in the run up to the Great War make salutory reading today 🍊
April 8, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Strikwerda's account of the short-sighted and zero sum assumptions of the German political elite in the run up to the Great War make salutory reading today 🍊
Strikwerda's analysis offers an interesting critique of the just-so stories told by so-called realist accounts, which see great power competition as a self explanatory account of the origins of war
April 8, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Strikwerda's analysis offers an interesting critique of the just-so stories told by so-called realist accounts, which see great power competition as a self explanatory account of the origins of war
Strikwerda: The late 19th century Eurepean return to imperialism was based, not on rational calculation but on irrational fear and competitive grandiosity
April 8, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Strikwerda: The late 19th century Eurepean return to imperialism was based, not on rational calculation but on irrational fear and competitive grandiosity
On the salience and extent of internationalism before the Great War #Strikwerda
April 8, 2025 at 10:55 AM
On the salience and extent of internationalism before the Great War #Strikwerda
This one is 7 years old. I realised the other day that I will have 5, 6 more years with her at most. I'm already feeling it's much too short 😢
April 3, 2025 at 11:00 AM
This one is 7 years old. I realised the other day that I will have 5, 6 more years with her at most. I'm already feeling it's much too short 😢
I heartily agree
April 1, 2025 at 10:20 AM
I heartily agree