Introduction to the question: is confusion a form?

摘要: This paper introduces a collection of papers and responses presented as panel at the Johannesburg Workshop in Theory Criticism, June 2013. The theme workshop that year was “The Life Forms.” Our addressed place concept “form” emergence terms such precarity, fragmentation, impasse others, applied to situations comprise confusion, “too-muchness.” We bring ethnographic attention cosmologies approaches daily life amongst African Africa-descended populations southwest Nigeria, Brazil Congo, where there are already “forms,” personification objectification, have conventionally been translated into English convey confusion. Responses from extend discussion by drawing on art mathematics, an literary source. In this introduction, some existing past recent literatures relative “confusion” discussed, symposium in...