Postapartheid as verwondingskultuur binne ’n patologiese openbare ruimte : Mark Gevisser se Lost and found in Johannesburg

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Abstract: Postapartheid as a wound culture within a pathological public sphere: Mark Gevisser’s Lost and Found in Johannesburg In his work on “wound culture” and the “pathological public sphere” Mark Seltzer (1997) identifies “addictive violence” as “not merely a collective spectacle but one of the crucial sites where private desire and public space cross” in late modernity (1997:3). For Seltzer the convening of the public “around scenes of violence” (such as rushing to the scene of an accident, either an on-the-scene event or a voyeuristically experienced multimedia happening) is constitutive of so-called wound culture. The latter is the “public fascination..