The revolution will be bureaucratised
Sanitised, civilised
Minuted in committee
With truth sitting pretty
Waiting for approval by sub-committee
By the executive with every consecutive directive, objective
Formalised, circumscribed
You might wonder why
We even tried
We even cried
For positive change
For positive days…

— (colony)

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  • Adam Haupt writes about film, media, culture and copyright law. He is an Associate Professor at the University of Cape Town and is the author of Stealing Empire: P2P, Intellectual Property and Hip-Hop Subversion (HSRC Press, 2008) and Static: Race & Representation in Post-Apartheid Music, Media & Film (HSRC Press, 2012). In 2010, he was a Mandela Mellon Fellow at Harvard University's W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research.

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Adam Haupt

Adam Haupt writes about film, media, culture and copyright law. He is an Associate Professor at the University of Cape Town and is the author of Stealing Empire: P2P, Intellectual Property and Hip-Hop...

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