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Articles from Acta Academica: Critical views on society, culture and politics
Acta Academica: Critical views on society, culture and politics
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A social constructivist understanding of culture for environmental justice and policy
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In addressing the environmental threats to cultural resources, some environmental ethicists have taken for granted the idea that culture has an essential...
Self-realizing a lived existence in service of emancipation: Tsenay Serequeberhan’s activist hermeneutics
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Through his own activistic hermeneutics, Sereque berhan crafts a philosophy which allows African(a) persons pathways to self-realization and self-emancipation from Western cul...
Borrowing practices in modern revolution-making: from Marx’s The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte to Rancière’s The Names of History
<jats:p>Marx’s The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte has served as a locus classicus for postmodern interpretations of Marxism’s contemporary legacy and relevancy due to its thematisa...
On the proletarian public sphere and its contemporaneity: crises, class and the media
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This article attempts a critical enquiry into contemporary politics and culture as characterized by a prolonged capitalist crisis and its concomitant economic, social, political, an...
‘A love note to our future selves’: the coaching imperative in platform cultures
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This article looks at the imperative of life coaching on media platforms as a broader social technology and a technology of the self. Life coaching sugge...
Comparative digital protest cultures in South Africa and Tamil Nadu: #feesmustfall, #Jallikattu, and Abahlali baseMjondolo (AbM) - a case of surveillance and diasporic potential
<jats:p>This paper explores three protest movements differing in scale and scope in two regions in the world. #feesmustfall (2015-2016) was a social media movement in South Africa to protest aga...
The individual in the gig society: is the gig economy exploitative of the informal economy, or a means of empowerment?
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This article argues that the gig economy is an exploitative extension of the informal economy. With its decentralised promise of individual entrepreneurship, I will argue that it p...
The simultaneous atomisation and massification of neoliberal reason
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Neoliberal reason is often defended for its supposed radical individualism. While critics of neoliberalism are right to problematise the atomising effects of this sort of indi...