Part I: Die Antwoord's State of Exception

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Notes

¹ Coovadia and Vladislavić, Comments at the Franschhoek Literary Festival.

² Coetzee, Disgrace.

³ Ballen, Platteland.

⁴ Ballen, Platteland; Ballen, Outland.

⁵ Himes, “Don’t ever underestimate the animals,” 42.

⁶ The band's acquisitive approach to visual references, whether vernacular or fine art, landed them in legal trouble in February 2012 when Jane Alexander, whose iconic sculpture The Butcher Boys (1985–86) was quoted in an online teaser video for Die Antwoord's new album Ten$ion, dispatched a legal request asking that the video be removed. The band obliged Alexander's request without contest.

⁷ Antwoord, “I Fink U Freeky (I Fink You Freeky),” ZEF Recordz.

⁸ Himes, “Don‘t ever underestimate the animals,” 43.

⁹ Raymund van Niekerk, “Letter to the Editor,” 28.

¹⁰ Ibid.

¹¹ Aletti, “Ten Great Photographs,” online.

¹² Law-Viljoen, “Some Sort of Place,” 59.

¹³ Ibid.

¹⁴ Agamben, State of Exception, 1, 4, 35.

¹⁵ Coetzee, Disgrace, 91.

¹⁶ Dewey, Art as Experience, 310.

¹⁷ Corrigall, “Die Antwoord,” online.

¹⁸ Du Preez, “Die Antwoord Gooi Zef Liminality,” 114.

¹⁹ Die Antwoord, “Rich Bitch,” Interscope Records.

²⁰ Bloom, introduction to Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, 2.

²¹ Eagleton, After Theory, 4.