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'Who's in Control'

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'Who's in Control'

By
Sean Jacobs

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It must be the moment. British band British Sea Power’s anti-privatization pop song, “Who’s in Control.”

Oh, were you not told
Do you not know
Everything around you is being sold
Do you not care
Will you not bear
Everybody else is going spare
What’s yours and mine
Hers, his escape you all the time
Sometimes I wish
Protesting was sexy on a Saturday night

Further Reading

No one should be surprised we exist

The documentary film, ‘Rolé—Histórias dos Rolezinhos’ by Afro-Brazilian filmmaker Vladimir Seixas uses sharp commentary to expose social, political, and cultural inequalities within Brazilian society.

Reading List: Barbara Boswell

While editing a collection of the writings of South African feminist Lauretta Ngcobo, Barbara Boswell found inspiration in texts that reflected Ngcobo’s sense that writing is an exercise of freedom.

Kenya’s stalemate

A fundamental contest between two orders is taking place in Kenya. Will its progressives seize the moment to catalyze a vision for social, economic, and political change?

An annual awakening

In the 1980s, the South African arts collective Vakalisa Art Associates reclaimed time as a tool of social control through their subversive calendars.

More than a building

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