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The heart of Grant Farred’s latest book, The Perversity of Gratitude: An Apartheid Education (2024), can be summed up in his dedication: “This book is dedicated to the intellectuals who were my teachers. I pay tribute here to these teachers who remain, indefatigably, the first models of the intellectual whom I encountered.” His book, to my mind, is a scholarly and deeply reflective tribute to teacher intellectuals in the Cape, four in particular – Richard Dudley, his Livingstone High School deputy principal and teacher; Morgan MacArthur, his English teacher at Livingstone High School; Stanley Ridge, his lecturer and Head of Department in English Literature at the University of the Western Cape, and Richard Rive, the writer who was not formally Grant’s teacher but who inspired and mentored him in the world of writers in the Cape, country and continent. But this account of Farred’s book captures only one of the two distinct but inextricably connected dimensions of this work of self-reflection on his intellectual formation. There is a second centre to this book – it is Farred’s philosophical apparatus that directs his accounts of the four seminal characters to whom he pays homage. He invents the notion of the “perversity of gratitude” following the work of philosophers like Heidegger, and deconstructionists like Derrida and Foucault, among many other philosophers and popular culture figures, to frame and direct this enquiry into his formative past. Gratitude to these, and other teachers, is perverse in the sense that apartheid education, designed to make the disenfranchised not think, in fact did for him the exact opposite – it made him think, and think about thinking. In short, Perversity of Gratitude: An Apartheid Education is a deeply reflective, daring, philosophical “thank you” to those individuals and institutions who made him who he is today.

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Surplus Radical Bookshop and IFAA are honoured to host veteran Film Festival Director and Programmer Trevor Steele Taylor.

Trevor will recollect his years in South African Film Festivals such as the Cape Town International Film Festival, the Weekly Mail & Guardian Film Festival, the Film Festival at the Grahamstown National Arts Festival and the early years of the L***a as it changed into an independent cinema in the mid-seventies.

Beyond merely a reminiscence, he will explain the roots of cinematic subversion which was intrinsic to the thinking behind film programming at the time. A commitment to a cinema outside of Industry, Main Stream Media, Entertainment, red carpets, awards and compliance.

He will reference the work of film directors such as Lindsay Anderson, Michelangelo Antonioni, Pier Paolo Pasolini and will emphasise the need for a cinema that is not allied to corporate thinking. Special attention will be given to British filmmaker Peter Watkins.

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Surplus Radical Bookshop, IFAA and the Peace Centre are pleased to invite you to join us for ‘I like what I write: A workshop about Creative Writing.”

This workshop is aimed at helping those who wish to conduct creative writing workshops. It takes its inspiration from the train-the-trainer workshops conducted by renowned creative writing facilitator Anne Shuster for the Congress of South African Writers in the late 1980s.

The workshop will be conducted by Mark Espin, who teaches in the Department of English at the University of the Western Cape.

Join us this Thursday for a discussion with an Anti Imperialist and non extractive American Comrade on the History of Congolese Liberation.

Join us this Saturday for our first study group meeting. We are starting the group with the chapter titled “On National Culture” from Frantz Fanon’s Wretched of the Earth.

Date: 3 August 2024
Time: 9:30am - 11:30am
Venue: Surplus Radical Bookstore, Peace Centre, 3 Rye Rd, Mowbray, Cape Town (hybrid option available, link to be shared in the Whatsapp group closer to the time)

We ask that everyone read the reading and bring one question or aspect for discussion. Hope to see you there!

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Surplus Bookshop stocks THE EYE OF THE NEEDLE BY RICK TURNER

NEW BOOK: Rick Turner's Politics as the Art of the Impossible

Rick Turner was a South African academic and activist who rebelled against apartheid at the height of its power. For this he was assassinated in 1978, at just 32 years of age. His life and work are testimony to the power of philosophical thinking for humans everywhere. This book takes seriously Rick Turner’s challenge that political theorising requires thinking in a utopian way.
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Surplus Radical Bookshop and IFAA are honoured to host veteran Film Festival Director and Programmer Trevor Steele Taylor. Trevor will recollect his years in South African Film Festivals such as the Cape Town International Film Festival, the Weekly Mail & Guardian Film Festival, the Film Festival at the Grahamstown National Arts Festival and the early years of the L***a as it changed into an independent cinema in the mid-seventies. Beyond merely a reminiscence, he will explain the roots of cinematic subversion which was intrinsic to the thinking behind film programming at the time. A commitment to a cinema outside of Industry, Main Stream Media, Entertainment, red carpets, awards and compliance. He will reference the work of film directors such as Lindsay Anderson, Michelangelo Antonioni, Pier Paolo Pasolini and will emphasise the need for a cinema that is not allied to corporate thinking. Special attention will be given to British filmmaker Peter Watkins whose analysis of the Mono-form, takes the entire visual medium to task.

All cinephiles, students of film and media, film historians, movie buffs and the public are welcome.

Imminent poet and writer Rustum Kozain will be joining us from New Zealand for this edition of the Creative Writing workshop with Surplus and our partners.

Join CAYCO for a monthly study group on topics pertaining to politics, history, and movement building. We are starting the group with the chapter titled “On National Culture” from Frantz Fanon’s Wretched of the Earth.

Date: 13 July 2024
Time: 11am-1pm
Venue: Surplus Radical Bookstore, Peace Centre, 3 Rye Rd, Mowbray, Cape Town (hybrid option available, link to be shared closer to the time)

We ask that everyone read the reading and bring one question or aspect for discussion. If you need the reading, let us know. Hope to see you there!

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Surplus' involvement has crossed the point of p deniability. All proceeds from this fundraiser go to the Housing Assembly. I've been told the headliners have something to say. STIEK UIT JOU BANG DING!!!!

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Dr Josephine Norward, is most likely known to very few South Africans. Born in Kwazulu-Natal, she is the daughter of legendary investigative journalist Henry “Mr Drum” Nxumalo. Beginning her career as a social worker in Soweto, after graduating from The University of Zululand, she later left to study in the US and settled there. She has subsequently enjoyed a long and distinguished career in academia as a social work teacher/mentor.
Dr Norward’s body of work is described as ‘grounded in issues of social inequality in education, health care, and housing.’ Moreover, she co-produced an interdisciplinary documentary on investigative journalism in South Africa in the 1950s. The film was selected as a finalist at the World Film Festival in 2017.
In her memoir, Honoring My Village, Norward tells the story of Jo, a black South African woman born into the apartheid system and raised by her community that struggled and strived for survival. It depicts the struggles of a young woman swinging between dependence and an imagined freedom. It also tells the story of her immigration to another country, her loves and her losses and the strangeness of looking at a place you know, the world that raised you, from the eyes of a foreigner.
Honoring My Village, was published on October 26, 2023. Olympia Publishers: London, and is available on Amazon.com.
This event forms part of the continuous Book Launch Series co-hosted by IFAA, Surplus Radical Bookshop and the Peace Centre.
Date and Location: Saturday 25th May 2024, 10 am – 12 pm Peace Centre, 3 Rye Road, Mowbray, Cape Town.
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IFAA Forum: African Film Series Screening. Thomas Sankara. The Upright Man | IFAA The Institute for African Alternatives and Surplus Radical Bookshop are pleased to invite you to a film screening of “Thomas Sankara: The Upright Man” by Robin Shuffield. This event forms part of our African Film Series in which we explore the life and times of important African revolutionaries ...