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meaning. But as Baudrillard keenly observes, we are never identical or present to ourselves, and that the impossibility of reducing the meaning making process, is to embrace a “radical alterity” (2000, p. 71). Die Antwoord is an embrace of alterity and the confusion and discomfort that exist within the notion of difference.
Funding
This work was supported by Rhodes University [grant number 1400256].
Author details
Sonja Smit[1]
E-mail: twiggysmit@gmail.com
↑ Drama Department, Rhodes University, 8 Anderson Street, Grahamstown 6139, South Africa.
Citation information
Cite this article as: Enter the imperceptible: Reading Die Antwoord, Sonja Smit, Cogent Arts & Humanities (2015), 2: 1064246.
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