Home is our first real mistake. It is the one error that changes everything, the one lesson you could let destroy you. It is from this moment that we begin to build our home in the world. It is the place that we furnish with smell, taste, a talisman, a name. -1
“Disneyland is presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the real (i.e the world outside Disneyland) is real., whereas in fact all of Los Angeles and the America surrounding it are no longer real, but of the order of hyperreal and of simulation” -2
Home is our first real mistake. It is the one error that changes everything, the one lesson you could let destroy you. It is from this moment that we begin to build our home in the world. It is the place that we furnish with smell, taste, a talisman, a name. -1
“Disneyland is presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the real (i.e the world outside Disneyland) is real., whereas in fact all of Los Angeles and the America surrounding it are no longer real, but of the order of hyperreal and of simulation” -2
Siwelile Mathenjwa
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Siwelile Mathenjwa
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Siwelile Mathenjwa
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Voices from Big Utopia: Notes on Svetlana Alexievich’s Second-Hand Time
Voices from Big Utopia: Notes on Svetlana Alexievich’s Second-Hand Time
Bongani Kona
Bongani Kona is a writer and contributing editor at Chimurenga. He completed an MA in Creative Writing at the University of Cape Town and is the co-editor of Migrations, and anthology of short fiction. His work has appeared in a variety of publications and anthologies including Safe House: Explorations in Creative Nonfiction, Redemption Song and Other Stories, BBC Radio 4, and Black Tax: Burden or Ubuntu? Kona was awarded the Ruth First Fellowship in 2019 and shortlisted for the Caine Prize for African Writing in 2016.
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