“推翻宇宙法则”:在#FeesMustWall之后阅读珍妮·玛丽·杰克逊的《非洲思想小说》

IF 0.3 3区 文学 0 LITERARY THEORY & CRITICISM
Simon van Schalkwyk
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2016年10月12日,开普敦大学的学生领袖齐聚一堂,讨论科学的非殖民化问题。这次会议的视频记录为非殖民化辩论中的高风险提供了一个有启发性的视角:“如果我个人致力于强制执行非殖民化,”主要发言人宣称,“科学作为一个整体是西方现代性的产物,整个东西应该被刮掉。”尽管听众哄堂大笑,演讲者还是坚持说:“我们必须重新开始科学……”从非洲的角度,从我们如何体验科学的角度。然后,她以夸祖鲁-纳塔尔省的一个地方为例,进一步阐述了自己的观点,那里的人们相信,通过黑魔法或巫术,“有可能发出闪电击中某人”,然后她提出了一个具有挑战性的问题:“你能科学地解释这一点吗?”在对演讲者的说法提出肯定或抗议的声音中,可以听到一名听众说:“这不是真的。”这时,主席要求听众保持秩序,并直接解决不同意见。“当我们开始这件事的时候,”她开始说,“我们达成了一致
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“Undoing the Laws of the Universe”: Reading Jeanne-Marie Jackson’s The African Novel of Ideas after #FeesMustFall
On October 12, 2016, #FeesMustFall student leaders at the University of Cape Town gathered to discuss the decolonization of science. A video-recording of this event offers an illuminating perspective of the high-stakes involved in the decolonial debate: “If I personally were committed to enforcing decolonization,” declares the primary speaker, “science as a whole is a product of Western modernity and the whole thing should be scratched off.”1 Despite the ensuing laughter, the speaker continues, insisting that “we have to restart science from... an African perspective, from our perspective of how we’ve experienced science.”2 She then proceeds to develop this idea with reference to a place in Kwazulu-Natal where people believe that it is possible, through black magic or witchcraft, “to send lightning to strike someone,” before clinching her pointwith the challenging question: “Can you explain that scientifically?”3 Amid the concatenation of voices raised either in affirmation or protest in response to the speaker’s claim, a member of the audience can be heard saying, “It’s not true.”4 At this point, the chair calls the audience to order and addresses the voice of dissent directly. “When we started this,” she begins, “we agreed on
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