Stellenbosch

Cornerstone is a surf and skate shop in Stellenbosch, South Africa. They are the new proudly stoked stockists of Fibretec Skateboards. This video documents the processes used to create these elite skateboards. awee

Distinguished academic Sarah Nuttall talks about the current climate in literary studies at the University of Stellenbosch’s research seminar on 3 March 2011 organised by Professor Meg Samuelson. Summary: “Symptomatic reading is increasingly unable to respond to the wider culture we inhabit. The work of literary criticism has lost its claim to the political edge, the activist possibility that if we see differently we can change the world. And there is a rising hunger for reality — not just in others, in some risible middle class which we despise — but in ourselves.” Discussion panel: Meg Samuelson, Leon de Kock and Daniel Roux

Distinguished academic Sarah Nuttall talks about the current climate in literary studies at the University of Stellenbosch’s research seminar on 3 March 2011 organised by Professor Meg Samuelson. Summary: “Symptomatic reading is increasingly unable to respond to the wider culture we inhabit. The work of literary criticism has lost its claim to the political edge, the activist possibility that if we see differently we can change the world. And there is a rising hunger for reality — not just in others, in some risible middle class which we despise — but in ourselves.”

Distinguished academic Sarah Nuttall talks about the current climate in literary studies at the University of Stellenbosch’s research seminar on 3 March 2011 organised by Professor Meg Samuelson. Summary: “Symptomatic reading is increasingly unable to respond to the wider culture we inhabit. The work of literary criticism has lost its claim to the political edge, the activist possibility that if we see differently we can change the world. And there is a rising hunger for reality — not just in others, in some risible middle class which we despise — but in ourselves.”