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The Johannesburg Salon
The Prince Claus Fund supported the Johannesburg Salon, a project that started in 2009 and involved the establishment of a website that entails developing a collective electronic network of highly regarded academic and cultural experts in Africa and the publication of four volumes with contributions of South African writers as well as writers from elsewhere.
A project of the Johannesburg Workshop in Theory and Criticism (JWTC), The Salon is an intellectual, political and cultural digital magazine. It is open to scholars, writers, artists, designers, architects, activists and public intellectuals who want to shape conversation from the global South while testing their works and ideas against unanticipated modes of everyday life in an uncertain world.
The Salon blurs the lines that separate print from digital media. It combines maximum elegance and minimum ornamentation, transparency, minimalist aesthetics and ease of use.
Its platform has been designed by The Library, with funding from The Prince Claus Fund and support from the Faculty of the Humanities at the University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa).
Recently (September 2011) the Salon announced the fourth publication. All four volumes were edited by Prof. Achille Mbembe and Prof. Lara Allen.
"Publications with high intellectual quality"
Prince Claus Fund applications programme, 2009
Editorial of Volume 1(2009)
By Prof. Achille Mbembe and Prof. Lara Allen
The Johannesburg Salon is an experiment. It is a contingent and in-process attempt to merge elements of an intellectual-cultural magazine with a public discussion forum. Notwithstanding the misgivings of many of our Anglophone writers (who associate the term Salon with amateur opera and sad canapés) we have called this forum a Salon in an attempt re-establish the ideal of a public space fundamentally dedicated to intellectual discussion; one that recognises the central place of ideas in public life. We also wish to rework the notion that such a forum is the exclusive domain of old Europe. The Johannesburg Salon is an attempt to utilize the opportunities for global conversation offered by the spatial and temporal compression of the virtual environment. The 21st Century manifestation of the internet allows The Johannesburg Salon's public to be from all over the world, and to meet simultaneously.
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The Johannesburg Salon
The Prince Claus Fund supported the Johannesburg Salon, a project that started in 2009 and involved the establishment of a website that entails developing a collective electronic network of highly regarded academic and cultural experts in Africa and the publication of four volumes with contributions of South African writers as well as writers from elsewhere. A project of the Johannesburg Workshop...
The Johannesburg Salon
The Prince Claus Fund supported the Johannesburg Salon, a project that started in 2009 and involved the establishment of a website that entails developing a collective electronic network of highly regarded academic and cultural experts in Africa and the publication of four volumes with contributions of South African writers as well as writers from elsewhere. A project of the Johannesburg Workshop...
