Assembling Oscar,assembling South Africa,assembling affects |
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| Institution: | 1. University of Western Sydney, Locked Bag 1797, Penrith, NSW 2051, Australia;2. University of Melbourne, 20/11 Springfield Avenue, Potts Point, NSW 2011, Australia;1. IREC – Catalonia Institute for Energy Research, Sant Adrià de Besòs, Spain;2. IN2UB – Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain;1. Post-Graduate Program in Veterinary Science, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Federal University of Mato Grosso, Cuiabá, Mato Grosso, Brazil;2. Laboratory of Virology and Rickettsiosis, Veterinary Hospital of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Federal University of Mato Grosso, Cuiabá, Mato Grosso, Brazil;3. Department of Veterinary Science, M.H. Gluck Equine Research Center, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY;4. Brazilian Pantaneiro Horse Breeders Association, Poconé, Mato Grosso, Brazil;1. Egypt–Japan University of Science and Technology, New Borg El-Arab, Alexandria, Egypt;2. Faculty of Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan |
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| Abstract: | The cover feature of Time, “Oscar Pistorius and South Africa's Culture of Violence” (Perry 2013), assembles the shooting body of Oscar Pistorius and the dead body of Reeva Steenkamp in and as the body of post-apartheid South Africa. In analyzing this cover feature, mobilizing Deleuzian concepts, we consider how the bodily presence or absence of Oscars' prostheses at the time of the shooting – critical to the juridical establishment of his vulnerability and fear, and hence his innocence or guilt – is figured in relation to the history of race relations through which the author, Alex Perry, builds the moral compass that points toward South Africa's future. We also speculate about the relations through which the extra-textual material body of the reader is co-implicated in the event that is being assembled in this text. This is not to give a stable or final account of the text, the shooting, or the reader, but rather to contemplate the ways in which textual assemblages might become assembled for, by, in and as the collective body of a nation state or a reader. |
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| Keywords: | Oscar Pistorius Deleuze Assemblage Affect |
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