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• Huey Copeland, co-editor; Sampada Aranke, co-contributor, “A Questionnaire on Decolonization.” October 174 (2020): 3–125. Read here.

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• Johanna Burton, “Cultural Interference: The Reunion of Appropriation and Institutional Critique” and Anne Ellegood, “Mourning in America,” in Take It or Leave It: Image, Institution, Ideology (Los Angeles: Hammer Museum, UCLA, 2014), 15-38. Although practices of appropriation and institutional critiques emerged from distinct periods in contemporary art, they intersected during the 70s at the heart of the civil rights movement. The two articles in this reading raise questions towards the function of the author/viewer in the art's power to inform beliefs shaped by reactions, interpretations, and identities in a struggle against institutions. Read here.

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• Okwui Enwezor, “Reframing the Black Subject Ideology and Fantasy in Contemporary South African Representation,” Third text 11.40 (1997): 21–40. The re-emerging African Subjectivity and the interests of the past White authority converge in the representation of body-politics, blurring the binary within a new South African nationalism in its imagery. This essay challenges the ethical ground for a radical revisionist history to unsettle the apparatus of power in the relationship of both the white and black artist to the black body. Read here.

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• Kader Attia, “Signs of Reappropriation,” in Colonial Modern: Aesthetics of the Past, Rebellions of the Future, ed. Tom Avermaete (London: Black Dog Architecture, 2010), 50-58. The influence of "Africanity" on the reappropriation of Western modern art and architecture in previously colonized countries create intermediary spaces binding separate binary modernities of Western and African cultures, where the lines between reinterpretation of traditional objects and re-appropriation of meaning and power become blurred. Read here.

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• Robert Nichols, “Theft Is Property! The Recursive Logic of Dispossession,” Political theory 46.1 (2018): 3–28. Can theft precede the creation of property? This is a question that has long divided critical theorists, particularly along a pre-and post-Marxist axiom. Here, Nichols analyzes whether the semantic encoding of ‘dispossession’ entails a contradiction, or if it can instead operate recursively to establish the very property it is to steal. Read here.

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• Craig Owens, “The Discourse of Others: Feminists and Postmodernism,” in The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture, ed. Hal Foster (Seattle: Bay Press, 1983), 57-83. The 20th century’s structural disarmament of European hegemony has allowed for the dissemination of both postmodernism and postmodern knowledge. Among similar challenges Owens seeks to reconstruct how the feminist position leverages its representational presence with the contemporary transfiguration of socio-artistic mastery? Read here.

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• Athi Mongezeleli Joja, "Challenging Appropriation via Scapegoating: Hank Willis Thomas v. Graeme Williams," africanah.org. Read here.

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