{"id":224,"date":"2010-01-15T16:44:06","date_gmt":"2010-01-15T15:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianekoenig.de\/?p=224"},"modified":"2011-08-04T17:01:02","modified_gmt":"2011-08-04T16:01:02","slug":"text-in-online-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/christianekoenig.de\/?p=224","title":{"rendered":"Text in Online-Magazin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Januar 2010 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In\u00a0<em>&#8222;You are not welcome here&#8220;. Of post-apartheid negrophobia, and real aliens in Blomkamp&#8217;s<\/em> District 9 (gemeinsam mit Henriette Gunkel). In: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darkmatter101.org\/site\/\">darkmatter. in the ruins of imperial culture<\/a>, No. 6, January\/February 2010 (reprint as article in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darkmatter101.org\/site\/category\/journal\/issues\/7-general-issue\/\">general issue 7<\/a>, July 2011, peer reviewed) erl\u00e4utern wir, warum District 9 eine aussergew\u00f6hnliche, aufrichtige Kritik an der postkolonialen Gesellschaft S\u00fcdafrikas darstellt. Dies aber zum hohen Preis, insbesondere Afrikaner aus anderen afrikanischen Staaten (Nigerianer) als blinden Fleck zu behandeln. Wir demonstrieren zudem, dass D9, der von den einen als grandioser Vertreter des New African Cinema interpretiert, von anderen als &#8222;just another racist movie&#8220; abqualifiziert wird, gerade deshalb weltweit so erfolgreich ist, weil er Dichotomien wie &#8222;real&#8220; &#8211; &#8222;fiktiv&#8220;, &#8222;dokumentarisch&#8220; &#8211; &#8222;fiktional&#8220;, Identit\u00e4t-Differenz konstruktiv aufbricht und sich zudem keinem Genre eindeutig zuordnen l\u00e4sst.<\/p>\n<p>When\u00a0<em>District 9<\/em> (<em>D9<\/em>) was released in August 2009, the film was an immediate box office hit in several countries. This was much to the surprise of critics, reviewers and bloggers, who seemed astonished by the fact that a science fiction film with this impact could originate from South Africa. Internet forum discussions and an E-Symposium emerged as a response to the film, which continues to be the subject of controversial discussion.<a name=\"foot_src_1\"><\/a> While many celebrate the film in relation to the \u2018generic\u2019 genre of Science Fiction as a promising representative of a thriving African Cinema, others reject the film on the basis of its socio-political message, as yet another racist movie about Africa \u2013 with reference to the depiction of both \u2018the Nigerians\u2019 and the aliens.<a name=\"foot_src_2\"><\/a> In this article, we would like to move beyond a crudely metaphorical reading of representation (\u2018the aliens stand for X in reality\u2019), and explore the degree to which the film foregrounds its own mediality. This focus moves us beyond a polarizing position that immediately rejects the film as racist, and allows us to engage with a complex and original text unlike so many other films that take \u2018Africa\u2019 as their subject.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Januar 2010 In\u00a0&#8222;You are not welcome here&#8220;. Of post-apartheid negrophobia, and real aliens in Blomkamp&#8217;s District 9 (gemeinsam mit Henriette Gunkel). In: darkmatter. in the ruins of imperial culture, No. 6, January\/February 2010 (reprint as article in general issue 7, July 2011, peer reviewed) erl\u00e4utern wir, warum District 9 eine aussergew\u00f6hnliche, aufrichtige Kritik an der [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/christianekoenig.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/christianekoenig.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/christianekoenig.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christianekoenig.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christianekoenig.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=224"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/christianekoenig.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":296,"href":"http:\/\/christianekoenig.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions\/296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/christianekoenig.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christianekoenig.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christianekoenig.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}