Superhumanity - Lesley Lokko - In The Skin Of A Lion, A Leopard … A Man

In The Skin Of A Lion, A Leopard … A Man

Lesley Lokko

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A close-up of an example of scarification. Photo: Jean-Michel Clajot

Superhumanity
October 2016










Notes
1

Antonin Artaud, The Peyote Dance, trans. Helen Weaver (New York, 1976), 37–8.

2

Steven Connor, The Book of Skin, (London, 2004), 148.

3

Adam Nagourney, "Obama Wins Election," New York Times (4 November 2008), .

4

Manny Fernandez, Richard Pérez-Peña and Jonah Engel Bromwich, "Five Dallas Officers Were Killed as Payback, Police Chief Says," New York Times (8 July 2016), .

5

James Joyce in Padua, ed. Louise Berrone (New York: Random House, 1977), 21.

6

The highveld is the portion of the South African inland plateau, which has an altitude between 1500m and 2100m.

7

Paul H.G.M. Dirks and Lee R. Berger, et al., "Geological and Taphonomic Context for the New Hominin Species Homo naledi from the Dinaledi Chamber, South Africa," eLife (10 September 2015), .

8

Aristotle, Historia Animalium, trans. D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson, in The Works of Aristotle, vol. IV, eds. William David Ross and John Alexander Smith (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1910), III.11.518a.

9

Job of Edessa, Encyclopaedia of Philosophical and Natural Sciences, As Taught in Baghdad About AD 817, or Book of Treasures, trans. A. Mingana (Cambridge: W. Heffer & Sons, 1935), 88.

10

Ibid., Connor, 10.

11

Josue V. Harari, "The Maximum Narrative: An Introduction to Barthes’ Recent Criticism," Style 8.1 (1974): 56–77.

12

Emmanuel Levinas, Collected Philosophical Papers, trans. Alphonso Lingis (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1987), p. 116.

13

Jacques Derrida, Spurs: Nietzsche’s Styles, trans. Barbara Harlow (Chicago: University of Chicago, 1979), 37.

14

Claude Levi-Strauss, Structural Anthropology (New York: Basic Books, 1963), 144.

15

Stefano Boeri, "Notes for a Research Program," in Mutations, eds. Rem Koolhaas, Stefano Boeri, Sanford Kwinter, Nadia Tazi and Hans Ulrich Obrist (Barcelona: Actar, 2001), 356–377.

Superhumanity, a project by e-flux Architecture at the 3rd Istanbul Design Biennial, is produced in cooperation with the Istanbul Design Biennial, the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea, the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Zealand, and the Ernst Schering Foundation.